Bedlam
['bedləm] or ['bɛdləm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
达拉整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Madhouse, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.
芭芭拉校對
解釋/意思:
n. an asylum for lunatics: a madhouse: a place of uproar.—adj. fit for a madhouse.—ns. Bed′lamism anything characteristic of madness; Bed′lamite a madman.
丹整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Why, not to put too fine a point upon it, this is Bedlam, sir! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For an instant, all was silence; even the bedlam of the forest died to a faint murmur. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- If an order comes to me, which is own brother to an order come from Bedlam, it don't matter. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And if I invite all Newgate or all Bedlam here, by ------ they shall be welcome. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mad as Bedlam, boy! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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