psychopath是什么意思

psychopath

英 ['sa?k?p?θ] 美 ['sa?k?p?θ]

psychopath 精神病患者，心理變態(tài)者

psycho-,精神，心理，-path,疾病，詞源同pathology.

psychopath (n.): 1885, in the criminal psychology sense, a back-formation from psychopathic.
The Daily Telegraph had, the other day, a long article commenting on a Russian woman who had murdered a little girl. A Dr. Balinsky prevailed upon the jury to give a verdict of acquittal, because she was a "psychopath." The Daily Telegraph regards this term as a new coinage, but it has been long known amongst Spiritualists, yet in another sense. ["The Medium and Daybreak," Jan. 16, 1885]
The case alluded to, and the means of acquittal, were briefly notorious in England and brought the word into currency in the modern sense.

3. Diagnosing him as a psychopath was not a simple matter.: 診斷他是一個心理變態(tài)者并不是一件簡單的事.

4. Lana : Either an admirer or a psychopath, depending on who you ask.: 仰慕者或精神病, 看你問誰了.

5. The newspapers say there's a psychopath going around hacking up college co eds.: 報紙上說,有個精神病患者在男女共校的大學(xué)里轉(zhuǎn)來轉(zhuǎn)去并(女孩子)刀傷害.