2.MENTALLY ILL old-fashioned a man who is mentally ill 疯子,精神失常者,神经错乱的人
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madman• I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the last show in London, then I collapsed in the studio.• I had found a way to be paid for living life of a madman, she said.• The media is carrying the whole thing like he was a madman.• She took one look at Dean and decided that he was a madman.• There were moralobjections to house lizards being senselessly butchered by madmen.• Carkesse believed that madmenvent their rage by words on air, poets by ink on paper.• His only thought was to get away, away from those madmen, away from the mutation, away from the cathedral.
like a madman• The fans cheeredlike madmen when he scored a touchdown.• The one who rides that horse of his like a madman.• I was working like a madman right up to the minute of the last show in London, then I collapsed in the studio.