an extreme fear of being shut in a small place; the unpleasant feeling that a person gets in a situation that limits them 幽閉恐怖(症);因受限制而産生的不適感 to suffer from claustrophobia 患幽閉恐怖症 She felt she had to escape from the claustrophobia of family life. 她感到她得擺脫家庭生活的那種幽閉感覺了。 I hate lifts—they give me claustrophobia. 我討厭電梯——電梯使我有幽閉恐懼感。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + claustrophobia- get
- suffer from
- give somebody
- …
- a feeling of claustrophobia
Word Originlate 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Latin claustrum ‘lock, bolt’ + -phobia (see phobia).