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单词 addiction
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She battled mental health issues and drug addiction for many years.The proposals are part of an official review into the effects of obesity and drug and drink addiction.In human affairs we can classify many habits and obsessive compulsive behaviour or addictions as short circuits.There have been episodes of drug and alcohol addiction.The dad of three had battled booze and drug addiction for many years.It aims to give smokers a proper understanding of nicotine addiction and withdrawal symptoms.The heroin substitute can help addicts control and beat their addiction.In common with all celebrity memoirs there is also a battle with drug addiction.Loads of my friends have used them to help beat their addiction.He has battled successfully against drink and drug addictions.Nobody with a mental health problem or in the grip of drug or alcohol addiction should be in prison.There have been extensive tests and surveys by addiction clinics claiming to prove that smoking constitutes a physical addiction to nicotine.She's had to look after herself while her mum fights drug addiction.

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addiction

British English: addiction NOUN
Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
She helped him fight his drug addiction.
  • American English: addiction
  • Brazilian Portuguese: dependência
  • Chinese: 毒瘾
  • European Spanish: adicción
  • French: dépendance
  • German: Sucht
  • Italian: dipendenza
  • Japanese: 中毒
  • Korean: 중독
  • European Portuguese: dependência
  • Latin American Spanish: adicción

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Chinese translation of 'addiction'

addiction

(əˈdɪkʃən)

n (c/u)

  1. (to drugs, alcohol) 瘾(癮) (yǐn)
  2. (to gambling, boxing) 入迷 (rùmí)
(noun) 
She helped him fight his drug addiction.
Synonyms
dependence
Some doctors regard drug dependence as a psychological disorder.
need
habit
Biting your nails is a bad habit.
weakness
obsession
yet another man with an obsession about football
attachment
craving
vulnerability
subordination
enslavement
subservience
overreliance
(noun) 
I've developed an addiction to rollercoasters.
Synonyms
love of
passion for
attachment to
affection for
fondness for
zeal for
fervour for
ardour for

Quotation

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism [Carl Gustav Jung – Memories, Dreams, Reflections]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of habit
Definition
an addiction to a drug
Biting your nails is a bad habit.
Synonyms
addiction,
weakness,
obsession,
dependence,
compulsion,
fixation
in the sense of obsession
Definition
a persistent idea or impulse, often associated with anxiety and mental illness
yet another man with an obsession about football
Synonyms
preoccupation,
thing (informal),
complex,
enthusiasm,
addiction,
hang-up (informal),
mania,
phobia,
fetish,
fixation,
infatuation,
ruling passion,
pet subject,
hobbyhorse,
idée fixe,
bee in your bonnet (informal)

Synonyms of 'addiction'

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