Insanity
[ɪn'sænətɪ] or [ɪn'sænəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
(n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
編輯:洛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Derangement, lunacy, craziness, DEMENTIA, mania, madness, delirium, aberration of mind, alienation of mind.
編輯:瑞伊
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:{Mental_aberration}, mental_unsoundness,[See LUNACY]
校對:莎娜
例句/造句/用法:
- He had a peculiar eye, and I made up my mind that there was a strain of insanity somewhere. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The knowledge that drunkenness or insanity has been prevalent in a family may be the best safeguard against their recurrence in a future generation. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I felt that this was insanity--I sprang forward to throw it off; I rushed into the midst of the crowd. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Were there insanity in the family, I should believe you mad. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This produced a settled gloom, which in time developed a morbid insanity, and finally terminated in raving madness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This influence had become more harassing and decided, since partial insanity had given a strange, weird, unsettled cast to all her words and language. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- No trace of his past insanity remained, to dash my joy with sorrow. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Any ass can see it means insanity! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To think of him as Miss Crawford might be justified in thinking, would in her be insanity. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Taken literally, they are absurd pretensions; they indicate insanity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I think in that instant I hovered upon the verge of insanity. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You have been sadly visited; nor do I wonder that a feeling akin to insanity should drive you to bitter and unreasonable imaginings. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Turning her thoughts this way, I gave them an object which rescued them from insanity. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
整理:罗拉