fetishize
verb [ T ] (UK usually fetishise) uk/ˈfet.ɪ.ʃaɪz/ us/ˈfet̬.ɪ.ʃaɪz/
恋物，拜物
to consider something or someone important, interesting, or attractive to an unreasonable degree
At last, a crime thriller that doesn't fetishize the gun. 终于拍出了一部不过度渲染枪支的犯罪惊悚片。
In his song "Common People", he mocks rich kids fetishizing poverty. 在他的歌曲“普通人”中，他嘲笑了富家子弟对贫穷的过度美化。
（从某物或身体某部位获得性快感的）恋物
to have a sexual interest in an object or a part of the body other than the sexual organs, or in a person as if they are an object
He feels an angry need to control his lover, to dress her, to fetishize her clothes, her shoes, her hair. 他感到有一种愤怒的需要，要控制他的爱人，要给她穿衣服，要迷恋她的衣服、鞋子和头发。
Her body had been fetishized and objectified since she was a teenager. 从十几岁起她的身体就被迷恋和物化了。
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- He wrote that museums are too often mausoleums, more invested in fetishizing dead culture than supporting a living one.
- Unlike most site-based theatre productions, which tend to fetishise the city, she is interested in performance in rural landscapes.
- Universities can so fetishize narrow forms of expertise that they drive out intellectuals.
- In "The Maids," two role-playing servants fantasise about and fetishise their desirable and detestable mistress.
- He accused them of fetishizing men of certain races and behaving like "sex tourists".