craze

• n. 狂热
• vi. 发狂；产生纹裂
• vt. 使发狂；使产生纹裂

词源不确定，原义为破碎，破裂，见crazy paving，可能来自crack, 破裂声。并引申至心理含义，精神破裂，发狂。

craze (v.)

late 14c., crasen, craisen "to shatter, crush, break to pieces," probably Germanic and perhaps ultimately from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse *krasa "shatter"), but entering English via an Old French crasir (compare Modern French écraser). Original sense preserved in crazy quilt pattern and in reference to cracking in pottery glazing (1815). Mental sense (by 1620s) perhaps comes via transferred sense of "be diseased or deformed" (mid-15c.), or it might be an image. Related: Crazed; crazing.

... there is little assurance in reconciled enemies: whose affections (for the most part) are like unto Glasse; which being once cracked, can neuer be made otherwise then crazed and vnsound. [John Hayward, "The Life and Raigne of King Henrie the IIII," 1599]

craze (n.)

late 15c., "break down in health," from craze (v.) in its Middle English sense; this led to a noun sense of "mental breakdown," and by 1813 to the extension to "mania, fad," or, as The Century Dictionary (1902) defines it, "An unreasoning or capricious liking or affectation of liking, more or less sudden and temporary, and usually shared by a number of persons, especially in society, for something particular, uncommon, peculiar, or curious ...."

1. The craze for roller skating spread throughout the U.S.

滑旱冰在全美风靡一时。

来自柯林斯例句

2. the latest fitness craze to sweep the country

最近风靡全国的健身热

来自《权威词典》

3. Flower - arranging has become a great craze in Suffolk.

插花已在萨福克成为风靡一时的时尚.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. It's the latest craze to hIt'san Francisco.

那是旧金山流行的最新时尚.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The craze is sweeping over Japan.

这种狂热正席卷日本.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》