Nobelitis

别名

Nobel-itis

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An overriding or obsessive desire to win a Nobel Prize.

    贬义 幽默 不可数
  2. 2.

    Grandiosity or hubris in a Nobel laureate.

    贬义 幽默 不可数

    After all, it had worked for Lester Pearson, had it not? Did not the Peace Prize help him become Liberal leader and then prime minister? ‘Nobelitis,’ Canadians called it, and not in an unkindly way.

  3. 3.

    The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise.

    贬义 幽默 不可数

词源

From Nobel + -itis.

来源:wiktionary