中文词源
psych 使对手心虚，震慑对手
俚语，来自psyche,灵魂，心理。常见于习语psych someone out.
英语词源
- psych
- as a noun, short for psychology in various senses (e.g. as an academic study, in student slang by 1895). As a verb, first attested 1917 as "to subject to psychoanalysis," short for psychoanalyze. From 1934 as "to outsmart" (also psych out); from 1963 as "to unnerve." However to psych (oneself) up is from 1972; to be psyched up is attested from 1968.
权威例句
- 1. Is there nobody to take my instuctions?
- 难到没有人接受我的指令 吗 ?
- 2. After work, it is hard to psych yourself up for an hour at the gym.
- 下班后，很难打起精神再去健身房锻炼一个小时。
- 3. They are like heavyweight boxers, trying to psych each other out and build themselves up.
- 他们像是重量级拳击运动员，竭力想在心理上压倒对方，树立自己的信心。
- 4. If it's not schizophrenia , what else presents with psych symptoms?
- 如果不是精神分裂症还有什么病有心理症状?
- 5. You're using those magic numbers of yours as a psych - out, aren't you , man?
- 你在用那些魔法数字装疯, 是不是, 老兄?