单词 | run riot |
释义 | run riotrun riot a) IMAGINEif your imagination, emotions, thoughts etc run riot, you cannot or do not control them 〔想象、感情、思绪等〕无法控制,不加约束 Manufacturers have let their imaginations run riot to create new computer games. 生产商极尽想象之能事,开发设计新的电脑游戏。 b) LOUD/NOISYif people run riot, they behave in a violent, noisy, and uncontrolled way 狂暴,无法无天 Some people let their children run riot. 有些人听任孩子胡作非为。 c) GROW/GET BIGGERif a plant runs riot, it grows very quickly 〔植物〕疯长,蔓生 Examples from the Corpus run riot• Confusion ran riot in Ruth's heart.• The objects left in the churchyard were open to all manner of interpretation and imagination could run riot.• Because of her weakened state her imagination had run riot.• All kinds of wild ideas ran riot in my brain.• Ann let her imagination run riot as she wrote.• When Coleridge got on one and let his imagination run riot, he came up with Kubla Khan.• Roses ran riot up the wall.• In the Pilkington final two years ago, they ran riot over the Cherry and Whites.• Now, when far greater things were at stake, she had allowed her emotions to run riot.• Boro threatened to run riot but could not provide the finishing touch. → run riot at riot1(1) |
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