psychopath

• n. 精神疾患

psycho-, 精神的、心理的, -path, 病気, 語源的には病理学と同じ。

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.

1. He 's a psychopath ，a killer.

彼はサイコパス殺人者だ。

2.She was abducted by a dangerous psychopath .

彼女は危険なサイコパスに誘拐された。

3.Diagnosing him as a psychopath was not a simple matter.

彼がサイコパスであると診断するのは簡単なことではない。

4.Lana：Either an admirer or a psychopath ，depending on who you ask.

敬慕者や精神病、誰に聞いたか見て。

5.The newspapers say there 's a psychopath going around hacking up college co eds.

新聞によると、共学の大学を転々として刃物でけがをした精神病患者がいるという。