- an enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which typically appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity(对突然出现并风靡一时的某种活动或某物的)疯狂, 狂热:
the new craze for step aerobics
新出现的舞步有氧操热。
with obj.
1
- usu. as adj. crazed cause (someone) to be or appear to be wildly insane使(某人)发狂:
a crazed killer
一个疯狂的凶手。
2
- (常作be crazed)produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface)在(表面)上呈现龟裂:
the loch was frozen over but crazed with cracks.
湖面上全都结了冰, 但呈现出龟裂。
2.1
- no obj. develop such cracks呈现龟裂。
词源
late Middle English (in the sense 'break, shatter, produce cracks'):perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa 'crunch'.