英语词汇shrink的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shrink
词源	shrink. Shrink, and headshrinker, from which it derives, are Hollywood terms, the latter dating back to the late 1940s and the former coming on the scene some 20 years later. Both, of course, mean a psychiatrist and may be a comparison to the medicine men of primitive tribes who literally shrunk heads to work magic; headshrink may refer to the shrinking, or lessen- ing, of problems in a patient’s head.
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