英和和英

名詞

cafard (plural cafards)

1. Depression; melancholy.
   • 1918, Elizabeth Frazer, Old Glory and Verdun, page 169:

     That's the worst trouble with the soldiers in the trenches — nothing to do. It gives them the cafards, the black butterflies, the blue devils, the jimjams, the hump.

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

     At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her.