faith-healer 的意思
信仰治疗师; 依靠信仰治愈的人
faith-healer 的词源
faith-healer(n.)
“faith healer”这个词最早出现在1874年,是由faith(信仰)和healer(治愈者)组合而成的。另一个形式faith-curer则出现在1883年。
The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without. The first man had it, the last one will possess it. If left to himself, a man is most likely to use only the mischievous half of the force—the half which invents imaginary ailments for him and cultivates them; and if he is one of those very wise people, he is quite likely to scoff at the beneficent half of the force and deny its existence. ["Mark Twain," "Christian Science," 1907]
人的想象力对身体的治愈或致病的力量,是每个人与生俱来的。第一个人拥有这种力量,最后一个人也会拥有。如果不加控制,一个人很可能只会利用这种力量中恶作剧的一半——那一半为他创造虚构的疾病并加以培养;而如果他是那些非常聪明的人之一,他很可能会嘲笑这种力量的有益一半,并否认它的存在。[“马克·吐温”,“基督教科学”,1907年]
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