madness

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mad·ness /ˈmædnəs/ noun [uncountableU]

1 especially British EnglishBrECRAZY very stupid behaviour that could be dangerous or have a very bad effect 愚蠢行为，疯狂

it is madness (for somebody) to do something

It would be madness to drive all that way on your own.

这么长的路要全程自己一个人开车，那真是疯了。

Cutting down the forest is sheer madness (=completely crazy).

砍伐森林是愚蠢至极的行为。

2 MENTALLY ILLserious mental illness 精神病，精神错乱 SYN insanity

His family has a history of madness.

他的家族有精神病史。

3 moment/fit of madness when someone does something without thinking clearly 一时糊涂

In a moment of madness, I agreed to have the party at my house.

我一时糊涂，同意在我家搞聚会。

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moment/fit of madness• Grandcourt finds Gwendolen screaming in a fit of madness.• Francis made his will in a moment of madness.• In a moment of madness Rosenoir kicked Alan Kernaghan as he lay on the ground.• It was a moment of madness.• A brief moment of madness, I admit.• Just that one brief moment of madness ... Then the bitter tears of self-reproach.• Essex are likely to fine Neil Foster for his moments of madness yesterday.• He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness.

→ there’s method in/to somebody’s madness at method(3)

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madness• Bearing these points in mind, let us now start to consider the question of creativity and madness in more detail.• She made it sound like bally madness.• I grew possessed by madness to deceive.• Some prisoners feigned madness so that they would be released.• His madness and his recovery were still very much present to him, and he would occasionally talk or write about both.• Grandcourt finds Gwendolen screaming in a fit of madness.• Stores are preparing for the annual holiday shopping madness.• How could my dream have produced such madness?• Smith's photographs reflect the madness of our times.• Hera who never forgot a wrong sent the madness upon him.• By the end of the book, Peter's addiction has led him to madness and suicide.• Maya hears in its voice madness, self-hate.

sheer madness• Cutting down the forest is sheer madness.• Clearing a rainforest in this way is sheer madness.• Moving from the shade to the middle of the field seemed sheer madness.

mad·ness noun

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