英语单词

lunatic是什么意思

lunatic

英['luːnətɪk] |美['lʊnə'tɪk]
    n.精神失常者,精神病人;疯子;极愚蠢的人;狂人
    adj.疯狂的;精神错乱的;愚蠢的;极端的
日语:狂った 法语:fou 德语:verrückt 韩语:미치광이 俄语:lunático

牛津词典

noun

  1. 精神错乱者;狂人
    a person who does crazy things that are often dangerous
    1. This lunatic in a white van pulled out right in front of me!
      这个疯子开着一辆白色货车直接冲到了我前面!
  2. 严重精神病患者,疯子(现为冒犯语)
    a person who is severely mentally ill (the use of this word is now offensive)

    adj.

    1. 疯狂的;荒唐可笑的;极其愚蠢的
      crazy, ridiculous or extremely stupid
      1. lunatic ideas
        荒谬的想法
      2. a lunatic smile
        傻笑


    词形变化

    名词复数形式:lunatics



    中文词源

    lunatic 精神病

    来自拉丁语luna,月亮,词源同lunar.因西方古代医学认为月相的盈亏可引发暂时的神经错乱,也就是月亮效应,但时至今日,医学界仍对这一现象争论不休,没有定论。



    双语例句

    1. Officers will crack down on lunatic motorists who speed or drive too close to the car in front
      警察将会严厉打击超速或是紧贴前车行驶的疯狂司机。
    2. Her son thinks she's an absolute raving lunatic.
      她儿子认为她是个十足的疯子。
    3. He pleads for sanity in a lunatic world.
      他祈求在这混乱的世界里仍能保持头脑清明。
    4. Demands for a separate Siberia are confined for now to the lunatic fringe.
      要求西伯利亚独立的人如今只局限于一小撮极端主义分子。
    5. This murderous lunatic could kill them both without a second thought.
      这个杀人狂会毫不犹豫地把他俩都杀了。
    6. The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic.
      那位官员将演说斥为一个疯子绝望之中的胡说八道而不予理会。
    7. Malcolm looked at her as if she were a raving lunatic.
      马尔科姆看着她好像在看一个精神错乱的疯子。
    8. Haig and Robertson saw it as the lunatic ravings of a mad politician.
      黑格和罗伯逊把它看作是一个疯癫政治家的胡言乱语。
    9. And I do not relish claiming a lunatic as an uncle.
      我不是要说叔叔是一个疯子。
    10. Have you seen the way he drives? He's a complete lunatic!
      你看见过他开车时的样子吗?简直是个疯子。
    11. We got dragged here by one lunatic?
      我们被一个疯子拖来这里?
    12. But, I mean, why are you stillworking for that lunatic?
      但是,我是指,你为什么还为那个疯子工作?
    13. These docile lunatic automatons are no more trouble to their guards than cattle.
      对警卫来说,这些驯良的,机器人般的疯子和家畜一样不会带来多大的麻烦。
    14. If I told the truth, they'd send me to a lunatic asylum, not him.
      如果我告诉他们真相,他们会把我送进精神病医院,而不是那个疯子。
    15. There are no longer any lunatic asylums in the uk.
      英国已没有疯人院了。
    16. Was he crazy? Do you think he was a lunatic?
      他疯了吗?你说他是不是有神经病。
    17. I was carved up by a lunatic in a Porsche.
      一个开保时捷的疯子超车抢了我的道。
    18. I thought he'd be interested to know he has a lunatic son.
      他会有兴趣知道,他有一个丧心病狂的儿子。
    19. Don't leave me alone with this lunatic!
      不要和这个疯子单独离开!
    20. They looked at me as if I was a raving lunatic.
      他们看着我就好像我是一个胡言乱语的疯子。
    21. I began to think that his wife had been lunatic, or some such thing.
      我开始想他的妻子是神经错乱了,或者疯了。
    22. The drunkard is as much a danger to society as a lunatic at large.
      酒鬼与逍遥在外的疯子对社会有同样的危险。
    23. Second, the man which begins with you certainly is a lunatic.
      第二,和你动手的男人一定是个疯子。
    24. This government's policies are lunatic.
      这个政府的政策是疯狂的。
    25. People in this town know him as a lunatic.
      这个镇上的人们称他为疯子。
    26. That lunatic stole my tape.
      那个疯子偷了我的录音带。
    27. I might as well have struggled with a bear, or reasoned with a lunatic.
      我还不如跟只熊搏斗,或是跟疯子论理还好些。
    28. Only now Ginny's ankle is broken, and Ron is giggling and gibbering like a lunatic.
      这时,金妮的脚踝摔断了,罗恩正像一个疯子一样在傻笑和胡言乱语。
    29. The man's lunatic behavior is a menace to society.
      那个人的疯狂行为构成对社会的威胁。
    30. "I'm only going to be remembered as the lunatic who won the lottery," he said.
      我恐怕仅仅被当作一个赢了大奖的疯子而留在人们的记忆中。


    语源

    Middle English: from Old French lunatique, from late Latin lunaticus, from Latin lunamoon (from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity)


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