full of incessant or frantic activity 紧张忙乱的 a hectic business schedule. 紧张忙乱的工作日程。
(Medicine, archaic)relating to, affected by, or denoting a regularly recurrent fever typically accompanying tuberculosis, with flushed cheeks and hot, dry skin (医 古)(与)痨病(有关)的
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(Medicine, archaic)a hectic fever or flush (医 古)潮热,痨病热 ■a patient suffering from such a fever 痨病热患者
派生 hectically adverb 语源
late middle English etik, via Old French from late Latin hecticus, from Greek hektikos 'habitual', from hexis 'habit, state of mind or body'. The original specific association with the symptoms of tuberculosis (hectic fever) gave rise to the early 20th-cent. sense characterized by feverish activity