2012_03_21 Conniption n. Anger 憤怒 A fit of hysterical excitement or anger.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 21, 2012
conniption \kuh-NIP-shuhn\, noun:
A fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
"Wah!" says Stella-Rondo. I knew she'd cry. She had a conniption fit right there in the kitchen.
 -- Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O." The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat.
 -- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
A day or two later I was going about my business when a voice from above bellowed, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES RESEMBLE ONE ANOTHER, nearly giving me a conniption.
 -- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love: A Novel
Conniption is actually an invented word. It first appeared in America in 1833 and may be related to the word corruption which was use in the sense of "anger" in the early 1800s.

一個合適的歇斯底里的興奮或憤怒。

“哇！”斯特拉 - 朗多說。我知道她哭了。她在那裡有一個歇斯底里適合在廚房裡。
- 韋爾蒂，“為什麼我住在P.O.”韋爾蒂收集的故事

當他們來到家裡，大家有一個在村里誰得到的份額，其可怕的肉大巨頭鬥爭的歇斯底里。
- 芭芭拉Kingsolver，Poisonwood的聖經

一兩天後，我對我的生意時，一個聲音從上面吼叫，所有幸福的家庭彼此都很相似，幾乎讓我1歇斯底里。
- 妮可，愛的歷史克勞斯：一種新型的

歇斯底里實際上是一個新創字。它最早出現於1833年，在美國可能會在19世紀初的“憤怒”的感覺，這是在使用的單詞腐敗。