English Dictionary

shell shock

名詞

可算名詞 比喩的用法 不可算名詞

(figuratively) A stunning shock. / (uncountable) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle. / A person with the condition.

日本語の意味

（比喩的に）驚くほどの衝撃、強烈なショック / （不可算名詞）戦争による精神的疲労・外傷性ストレス障害、戦争性神経衰弱 / （人）戦争性神経衰弱を患っている人

When the CEO resigned unexpectedly, the entire office was in shell shock.

CEOが突然辞任したとき、オフィス全体は大きな衝撃に包まれた。

意味（1）

(figuratively) A stunning shock.

[…] Think of me / With all these psychic shell shocks — first the war, / Its great emotions, then this Elenor.

意味（2）

(uncountable) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle.

There's a condition in combat—most people know it by now. It occurs when a soldier's nervous system has reached the breaking point. In World War I, it was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables. Shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. Shell shock!!

意味（3）

A person with the condition.

I passed through the shell-shock wards and a yard where the shell-shocks sat about, dumb, or making queer, foolish noises, or staring with a look of animal fear in their eyes.

意味（4）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shell, shock.

The other was to go on, to the next drink or the bed or the grass outside, where the party-noises ebbed and flowed like shell-shocks and the Southern Cross burnt crookedly above.

shell shocks （ plural ）