恐懼，是常見的情緒，可能是害怕某種環境氛圍、某種生物、某種人類特質(?，

而這種針對恐懼的相關英語用句該如何表達呢?

[學習目標]: 學習英文中描述恐懼的相關的字詞

Practice Target: Learn some useful expressions about phobia in English.

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Dialogue: (情境對話)

Joey : Ah~ a cockroach!

Hope : Ah~ a cockroach! Here is a box. Cover it!

Joey : No way!

Hope : Phew! It ran out of the door.

Joey : Sorry, I was 太害怕了!

Hope : No worries. You were just in such panic when you saw the cockroach. I was scared of it too.

Joey : In fact, I am always in a panic when there are insects like cockroaches around. And I don’t like ants, flies, ladybugs, grasshoppers and butterflies.

Hope : You know there is a term describing the fear. It is called the phobia.

Joey : Phobia?

Hope : Yes. For instance, you are afraid of insects. It is called entomophobia.

Joey : Entomophobia? Interesting. So, I am also afraid of snakes, and stuff like that. What is that in English?

Hope : Oh~ it is ophidiophobia. It is an extreme, overwhelming fear of snakes. You can say you are ophidiopobic.

Joey : Yes, I am ophidiophobic.

Hope : And when you are afraid of reptiles. It is herpetophobia. So, it includes the fear of snakes and lizards.

Joey : Herpetophobia. So, I am herpetophobic, right?

Hope : Right. The other way to describe the phobia, for example, we can also say the house lizard triggered my herpetophobia.

Joey : The house lizard triggered my herpetophobia. 壁虎觸發我的爬蟲類恐懼症

Hope : You can also say “I’ve got phobia about snakes.”

Joey : I’ve got phobia about snakes. This is easier to say.

Hope : It is!

Joey : So, Hope, have you got any phobia?

Hope : I have got phobia about worms, insects, and reptiles, dogs, fish and a lot of things.

Joey : 你甚麼都怕呀?!

Hope : Yes. I have phobia about everything! ……

Joey : By the way, are there any other phobia we can learn today?

Hope : Yes. There is a modern phobia called nomophobia. Guess what it means.

Joey : Nomophobia…No mobile phone phobia? 無手機恐懼症?

Hope : Hey, good for you. For someone who cannot live without their smartphone, they are nomophobiic. Here is another one, sociophobia. Do you know it?

Joey : Sociophobia…..socio…..phobia 社交恐懼症，對吧!

Hope : That’s right. Here is another one that we hear often, mysophobia.

Joey : Mysophobia………I have no idea about this term. What is it?

Hope : Mysophobia means a fear of germs. 很怕細菌。

Joey : I got it. Mysophobia 是潔癖，對吧?