形容詞 hectic:

1. marked by intense agitation or emotion
   同義詞：feverish

1. The journalist lead a hectic life.
   新聞記者過著緊張興奮的生活。

hec.tic

adj.（形容詞）
Characterized by intense activity, confusion, or haste:
忙亂的：以緊張的活動、忙亂或慌忙為特征的：
例句：
.There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor.(Erik Erikson)
.他精力充沛但卻毫不忙亂或狂熱.(埃里克·埃里克森)

Medicine Of, relating to, or being a fever that fluctuates during the day, as in tuberculosis or septicemia.
【醫(yī)學(xué)】 發(fā)熱?。阂惶熘畜w溫不斷波動的，如肺結(jié)核或敗血病之癥狀，與其有關(guān)的，或是這種病的
Consumptive; feverish.
熱病的：患結(jié)核病的；發(fā)燒的
Flushed.
（臉等）發(fā)紅的

來源：
Middle English etik [recurring, consumptive]
中古英語 etik [復(fù)發(fā)的，患結(jié)核病的]
from Old French etique
源自 古法語 etique
from Late Latin hecticus
源自 后期拉丁語 hecticus
from Greek hektikos
源自 希臘語 hektikos
from hexis [habit]
源自 hexis [習(xí)慣]
from ekhein [to be in a certain condition] * see segh-
源自 ekhein [一定條件下] *參見 segh-

<注釋>In the Usage Panel survey done for the first edition of theAmerican Heritage Dictionary (9'9), 92 percent of the Panel approved of the use ofhectic in its most familiar sense, .characterized by feverish activity, confusion, or haste..The question was put to the Panelbecause in earlier usage that sense was sometimes deprecated as a loose extension of the term`s meaning in medicine.Unless one has some medical knowledgeone probably does not know the older medical uses of the term,for example, .relating to an undulating fever, such as those accompanying tuberculosis,.and unless one has some acquaintance with Middle Englishone would not recognize the first recorded instance of the word,etik, in a text written before 398. The Middle English term comes from the Old French development of the Late Latin wordhecticus, whose form helped reshape our word in the 'th century.Late Latinhecticus in turn comes from Greek hektikos, .formed by habit or forming habit. and .consumptive,. developing the last sense because of the chronic nature of tuberculous fevers.Thus a word that once simply meant .habitual.eventually had an English descendant used to refer to circumstances that would be undesirable if they were habitual.
在針對美國經(jīng)典辭書 （9'9年）第一版對用法專題使用小組的調(diào)查中， 92%的成員贊成hectic 一詞最常用的意思， .以緊張的活動、忙亂或慌忙為特征的.。之所以要向這些成員提這個問題，是因為作為該詞醫(yī)學(xué)含義的模糊延伸，這個意義有時不為人們所接受。除非某人有醫(yī)學(xué)方面的知識，否則他就很可能不知道這個詞在醫(yī)學(xué)方面的古老用法，比如.和起伏不定的熱病有關(guān)的，如肺結(jié)核的伴隨癥.。另外，除非某人對中古英語有一度程度的了解，否則他也認(rèn)不出398年以前的一個文本中該詞的首例etik 。 這個中古英語單詞是由古法語經(jīng)后期拉丁語hecticus 一詞的發(fā)展而來的， 其形式在'世紀(jì)幫助重新形成了這個單詞。而后期拉丁語中的這個詞hecticus 又是由希臘語中的 hektikos 一詞而來，這個詞在希臘語中意指.由習(xí)慣形成的或形成習(xí)慣的.及.患肺癆的，肺癆的.， 之所以得到最后的意思，是出于肺癆病的特性。這樣一來，原來只是表示.習(xí)慣性的.這個詞，傳到英語中最后竟變成了指一旦成為習(xí)慣則不被人所喜愛的情形