insanity

英 [ɪnˈsænəti]

美 [ɪnˈsænəti]

n.  精神失常; 精神错乱; 精神病; 十分愚蠢的行为; 荒唐的行为

复数：insanities　

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BNC.14784 / COCA.9821

牛津词典

noun

• 精神失常；精神错乱；精神病
  the state of being insane
  1. He was found not guilty, by reason of insanity.
     他以精神失常为理由获判无罪。
• 十分愚蠢的行为；荒唐的行为
  actions that are very stupid and possibly dangerous
  1. It would be sheer insanity to attempt the trip in such bad weather.
     天气这么糟糕还要去旅行，太荒唐了。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 精神错乱;精神失常;疯狂
  Insanityis the state of being insane.
  1. The film is a powerful study of a woman's descent into insanity...
     那部电影深入剖析了一个女人堕入疯狂的过程。
  2. The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.
     辩方以精神错乱为由进行申辩,但被告被判有罪并获刑。
• N-UNCOUNT 极端的愚蠢(行为);荒唐(事)
  If you describe a decision or an action asinsanity, you think it is very foolish.
  1. It was a period of collective insanity, of legalized murder and mayhem.
     那是个集体丧失理智、谋杀与暴力合法化的时期。
  2. ...the final financial insanity of the 1980s.
     20 世纪 80 年代最后的财政疯狂

英英释义

noun

• relatively permanent disorder of the mind

双语例句

• The insanity which ran in his family haunted him.
  家族遗传的精神错乱困扰着他。
• The human mind will be seized by insanity.
  人的思想会被精神错乱所抓住。
• Andrea Yates wept quietly after a jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity.
  在陪审团因精神失常为由而宣告她无罪后，安德丽-叶慈默默地流下了眼泪。
• What are you now, afraid of a little insanity?
  你怎么了，吓傻了吗？
• Towards evening Joe, too, was taken with a fit of insanity.
  到了傍晚，乔也开始精神错乱了。
• He stands acquitted on all charges; the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity.
  面对所有的指控他坚持自己是无罪的；陪审团因为他精神错乱而赦免了他。
• It was a period of collective insanity, of legalized murder and mayhem.
  那是个集体丧失理智、谋杀与暴力合法化的时期。
• He committed suicide during temporary insanity.
  他在一时的精神错乱中自杀了。
• There's rain and then there's this, which is sheer insanity.
  有雨，然后有这个，这是纯粹的精神错乱。
• I brought you here to talk him out of this insanity.
  我把你带到这跟你讲这东西。