psyching
v．
1. 使充满信心，激励：通过心理手段激发某人的信心或动力。
2. 使紧张，使心理受挫：通过心理手段使某人紧张或失去信心。
例句
Some men were able to get out of the army by psyching out.
一些男人假装有精神病，并以此来逃避参军。
Further digging proved that writers have been psyching themselves out not just for years, but for over a century.
继续“挖掘”的话我们会发现，抓狂的作家不仅这几年有，几世纪以来就有了。
Crunching the Numbers, I realized that foreigners have been psyching themselves out about writing about China for at least 122 years.
玩味这些数字，我意识到外国人已经为写中国抓狂了至少122年。
