| 释义 |
localitis colloq.|ləʊkəˈlaɪtɪs|
[f. local a. + -itis.]
(See quots.)
1943Newsweek 12 Apr. 18 The ‘Pacific first’ strategists are now reduced to those afflicted with localitis, a military disease..common to those, usually in remote spots, who see their local areas as the axial hub of all strategic movements. 1961Webster Localitis, undue concern (as on the part of a military commander) with a particular area or the problems of a particular situation resulting in failure to visualize adequately the whole of which it is a part. 1962Listener 8 Nov. 747/1 He was suffering from the complaint known in the Foreign Service as ‘localitis’—such an intense obsession with his own particular field that he could not see beyond it. 1964Economist 25 July 396/1 Among the world's occupational diseases, there is one that afflicts ambassadors. Americans call it ‘localitis’..when an envoy is so captivated by the country..to whom he is accredited that he keeps urging his home government to follow a policy which that country would favour. |