Any very strong interest or emotion, for Hawthorne, is next door to mania.
浓厚的兴趣或强烈的感情,对霍桑来说,都几近疯狂。
📖 牛津释义
next door
in or into the next house or room 隔壁
She lives next door. 她住在隔壁.
The manager's office is just next door. 经理办公室就在隔壁.
[attrib 作定语]
our ,next-door `neighbours 我们隔壁的邻居. next door to in the house or flat next to (sb/sth) 与(某人[某物])相邻
Next door to us there's a couple from the USA. 我们隔壁住著来自美国的一对夫妇.
(fig 比喻) Such ideas are next door to (ie close to) madness. 这种主意迹近疯狂.
and slipping through we no longer take omens from their flight on this side and that; and even the most superstitious villagers no longer take off their hats to the magpie and wish it good-morning.