addiction
英[?'d?k?(?)n]
美[?'d?k??n]
- n. 上癮，沉溺；癖嗜
英英釋意
- 1. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- 2. an abnormally strong craving
- 3. (Roman law) a formal award by a court sentence of a thing or person to another (as of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master;
- "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"