fad
/fæd/noun
1- an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze（尤指短暂和无根据的）时尚; 狂热：
the current fad in Hollywood is for TV remakes.
好莱坞的现行时尚是电视。
1.1
- an over-particular insistence on something苛求; 过分讲究：
his fads about the type of coffee he must have.
他对自己所喝咖啡品种的苛求。
派生词
faddish
adjectivefaddishly
adverbfaddishness
nounfaddism
nounfaddist
noun词源
mid 19th cent. (originally dialect)： probably the second element of fidfad, contraction of FIDDLE-FADDLE. Compare with FADDY.