claustrophobia

• n. [心理学的] 閉所恐怖症

claustro-、閉じる、閉所恐怖症、語源的にはcloseと同じ。-phobia、恐怖、語源的にはzoophobia、動物恐怖症と同じ。

claustrophobia

claustrophobia: see cloister

claustrophobia (n.)

"morbid fear of being shut up in a confined space," coined 1879 (in article by Italian-born, French-naturalized Swiss-English physician Dr. Benjamin Ball (1834-1892)) from Latin claustrum "a bolt, a means of closing; a place shut in, confined place, frontier fortress" (in Medieval Latin "cloister"), past participle of claudere "to close" (see close (v.)) + -phobia "fear."

1. He experienced feelings of claustrophobia from being in a small place.

彼は狭い場所にいて、幽閉恐怖症を体験した。

2.to suffer from claustrophobia

幽閉恐怖症

3.I hate lifts-they give me claustrophobia .

エレベーターが嫌いです——エレベーターは私を閉ざす恐怖感を与えます.

4.In the claustrophobia of her parents 'house she had no stimulus for creativity.

閉ざされた恐怖を感じさせる両親の家には、彼女の創作を刺激するものは何もありません。

5.People with claustrophoobia have a horror of being trapped in the lift.

幽閉恐怖症の人はエレベーターに閉じ込められることを極度に恐れている。