| 单词 | channel fever |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschannel fever channel fever n. Nautical †(a) (in a sailor) an unwillingness to engage in duties on leaving shore, sometimes accompanied by feigned illness (obsolete); (b) a feeling of restlessness or excitement attributed to or experienced by sailors as their vessel nears home port; (hence, more generally) homesickness.Originally used in reference to British sailors crossing the English Channel upon departure or return. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > nostalgia > homesickness country disease1562 Heimweha1721 maladie du pays1749 homesickness1756 nostalgia1756 mal du pays1777 nostalgy1846 channel fever1850 1850 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 73 46 In a merchant ship in bad weather, as in the British Channel, the duty of the seamen becomes almost uninterrupted, and some are apt to feign indisposition; this is called by the sailors the ‘Channel Fever’. 1872 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 23 Sept. 4/1 An alarming sickness has broken out among the yachtmen of England. Symptoms—an entire loss of pluck, a desire to keep still, and an utter aversion to cross the channel... The illness is known as the ‘channel fever’. 1900 Goshen (Indiana) Daily Democrat 30 July 6/5 Mighty few of the stiffs are workers... Before they have crossed Sandy Hook they are generally sick—channel fever, we call it. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 51 382 Look at Jones, will you, getting his blues out already. Boy oh boy, he's got channel-fever bad. 1992 J. Hamilton-Paterson Seven-tenths i. i. 25 The echo is of the ‘Channel Fever’ which returning British sailors used to contract on first glimpsing the south coast. 2011 J. Crowder Hillbilly in Coast Guard 68 I'm glad he's getting out of here. He's had channel fever for the past six months. < as lemmas |
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