【常用新聞英文語彙】paranoid (adj)的9種用法


1.不信任別人。
He is isolated and increasingly paranoid. 他孤立無援,愈來愈不信任別人。

2.太多慮。
West Europeans might think the easterners paranoid. Easterners say they are just being realistic. 西歐人或許認為東歐人太多慮,東歐人說他們只是務實。

3.疑心。
He was paranoid to the point of having potential political rivals purged. 他疑心到把可能的政敵都整肅掉的程度。The North Koreans aren’t just paranoid to think that calls for improvements in human rights are synonymous with calls for regime change. 北韓認為要求改善人權無異要求政權更換並非只是疑心。

4.心有猜疑。
They have no desire to change the government—the state’s fears of re-volt are paranoid. 他們無意更換伊朗政府—伊朗駭怕人民起義是心有猜疑。

5.擔心。
If Iran was helping civil-rights activists in the U.S., wouldn’t the Americans be paranoid? 要是伊朗在美國協助爭取人權的人士,難道美國人不會擔心嗎? Paranoid about getting busted when he smoked marijuana, he would close all the curtains and turn the lights out so no one could see. 因為擔心抽大麻時被逮到,他會拉下所有窗簾,關掉電燈,避免人家看到。

6.疑心太多。
Am I being unreasonable or paranoid? 是我不講理, 還是我疑心太多?Is it OK to send an anonymous note? Am I just being paranoid? 寄匿名信可以嗎?我是不是疑心太多?

7.恐懼。
If China really had a valid case, it wouldn’t be so paranoid and oversensitive about the issue. 如果中國真的有健全的理由, 他對這個問題就不會這麼恐懼、這麼過於敏感。Koreans are too paranoid about the U.S. 韓國人對美國太恐懼。

8.緊張不安。
They are an isolated military cabal bent on crushing democracy, paranoid about imagined foreign conspiracies. 他們是一群孤立的軍事將領, 一心只想打壓民主,對心中想像的外國陰謀緊張不安。

9.生性多疑。
The sole purpose of this dusty bunker town is the wish fulfillment of paranoid generals. 這座死氣沉沉的碉堡城鎮的唯一目的就是實現那些生性多疑的將領的願望。

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