1650s, "study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon from Latinized form of Greek psykhe- "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy). Meaning "study of the mind" first recorded 1748, from Christian Wolff's "Psychologia empirica" (1732); main modern behavioral sense is from early 1890s.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Abraham Maslow described psychology as "the science of being."
亞伯拉罕·馬斯洛形容心理學(xué)是“存在的科學(xué)”。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. That may be two-bit psychology, but it's the only explanation I have.
那可能是不值一提的心理，但它卻是我唯一的解釋。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy.
心理學(xué)最初是自然哲學(xué)一個(gè)純粹的學(xué)術(shù)分支。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
4. He obtained his doctorate in Social Psychology.