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单词 madman
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Definition of madman in English:

madman

nounPlural madmen ˈmadmən
  • 1A man who is mentally ill.

    疯子,精神失常者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was like engaging with the texts of a madman in a mental institution.
    • He made the sizeable audience laugh with his wit and the rise and fall of his tone which he used to liven up the character Adam Avatar - a madman who is close to 50 and believes that he will die at the hands of his nemesis.
    • I started walking as quickly as possible away from the madman but he was coming after me faster than I was walking away.
    • He was also in his time dismissed as a crank and a madman.
    • Band members were flailing around like puppets under the control of a madman.
    • Another Year Five pupil disagreed with the laws, and said: ‘In this world there are serial killers, madmen, and lots of other lunatics.’
    • During his junior year at Harvard, in 2001, Ross Douthat was taking a final exam with 200 fellow students when a madman burst into the room.
    • The one character left with any topical resonance is Teddy: a madman who believes he is president of the United States and orders troops into action against an invented enemy.
    • Whether it changed an otherwise sensible (well, half-sensible) man into a madman, or whether it just brought out the real madman that was hidden there all along, who knows?
    • He's a psychotic madman, unlike any that has been seen on film before.
    • By now, everyone along the wide corridor was chucking very hurtful comments at me, all laughing like madmen or madwomen.
    • The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her.
    • We're basically chasing a madman who wants to control time.
    • Roffis was courageous, and decided to take a chance with the eccentric designer, already known as the madman.
    • Herzog gradually becomes the very fictional character his movie is about, an obsessed madman determined to drag a riverboat over a mountain. - RK
    • We need to get away from the idea that the only people bound by demons are mentally deranged madmen.
    • Three days later, Gawain and I answered the door to a newly lip-pierced individual who was grinning like a madman.
    • Like its predecessors, Killing Time opens with a hard-boiled New York-based psychologist hunting down a madman.
    • According to Le Carré and Boorman today we really are in the hands of fools and madmen.
    • He has often been characterised as a madman or Satanic genius.
    1. 1.1 An extremely foolish or reckless person.
      愚蠢的人;鲁莽的人
      car got out of control—some madman going too fast

      小汽车失去了控制——那疯子开得太快了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Except for the maddening crowds at every store, and except for the idiots at Roosevelt Field mall and except for the madmen on the road today, it was a stellar day.
      • He and his passengers were nearly wiped out a couple of times by the driver he referred to as a madman.
      • The woman started up the engine and drove like a madman… pardon me… I meant madwoman to the marionettes hotel.
      • If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
      Synonyms
      lunatic, maniac, psychotic, psychopath, schizophrenic
      informal loony, nut, nutter, nutcase, nutjob, cuckoo, head case, basket case, headbanger, psycho, schizo, crank, crackpot
      Scottish informal radge
      North American informal screwball
      US informal wing nut
      North American &amp Australian/New Zealand informal dingbat
    2. 1.2 Used in similes to refer to a person who does something very fast, intensely, or violently.
      (在明喻中用以表示某人做某事极快、极紧张或动作极猛)疯子
      I was working like a madman

      我发疯似的拼命干。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • After seeing the movie, and discovering that the tournament was moving to Brooklyn, I started practicing like a madman, downloading hundreds of old puzzles and buying up a bunch of books.
      • Though his injuries were always an obstacle in his training, as soon as Dekkers was well, he was back in the gym, working like a madman on the heavy bag, doing the repetitions necessary to develop his power.

Rhymes

Bradman, Caedmon, madmen

Definition of madman in US English:

madman

noun
  • 1A man who is mentally ill.

    疯子,精神失常者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He made the sizeable audience laugh with his wit and the rise and fall of his tone which he used to liven up the character Adam Avatar - a madman who is close to 50 and believes that he will die at the hands of his nemesis.
    • It was like engaging with the texts of a madman in a mental institution.
    • I started walking as quickly as possible away from the madman but he was coming after me faster than I was walking away.
    • Roffis was courageous, and decided to take a chance with the eccentric designer, already known as the madman.
    • Whether it changed an otherwise sensible (well, half-sensible) man into a madman, or whether it just brought out the real madman that was hidden there all along, who knows?
    • Like its predecessors, Killing Time opens with a hard-boiled New York-based psychologist hunting down a madman.
    • According to Le Carré and Boorman today we really are in the hands of fools and madmen.
    • Herzog gradually becomes the very fictional character his movie is about, an obsessed madman determined to drag a riverboat over a mountain. - RK
    • The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her.
    • During his junior year at Harvard, in 2001, Ross Douthat was taking a final exam with 200 fellow students when a madman burst into the room.
    • He's a psychotic madman, unlike any that has been seen on film before.
    • We need to get away from the idea that the only people bound by demons are mentally deranged madmen.
    • He has often been characterised as a madman or Satanic genius.
    • By now, everyone along the wide corridor was chucking very hurtful comments at me, all laughing like madmen or madwomen.
    • Another Year Five pupil disagreed with the laws, and said: ‘In this world there are serial killers, madmen, and lots of other lunatics.’
    • He was also in his time dismissed as a crank and a madman.
    • The one character left with any topical resonance is Teddy: a madman who believes he is president of the United States and orders troops into action against an invented enemy.
    • We're basically chasing a madman who wants to control time.
    • Three days later, Gawain and I answered the door to a newly lip-pierced individual who was grinning like a madman.
    • Band members were flailing around like puppets under the control of a madman.
    1. 1.1 An extremely foolish or reckless person.
      愚蠢的人;鲁莽的人
      the car was out of control—some madman going too fast

      小汽车失去了控制——那疯子开得太快了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The woman started up the engine and drove like a madman… pardon me… I meant madwoman to the marionettes hotel.
      • If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
      • He and his passengers were nearly wiped out a couple of times by the driver he referred to as a madman.
      • Except for the maddening crowds at every store, and except for the idiots at Roosevelt Field mall and except for the madmen on the road today, it was a stellar day.
      Synonyms
      lunatic, maniac, psychotic, psychopath, schizophrenic
    2. 1.2 Used in similes to refer to a person who does something very fast, intensely, or violently.
      (在明喻中用以表示某人做某事极快、极紧张或动作极猛)疯子
      I was working like a madman

      我发疯似的拼命干。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • After seeing the movie, and discovering that the tournament was moving to Brooklyn, I started practicing like a madman, downloading hundreds of old puzzles and buying up a bunch of books.
      • Though his injuries were always an obstacle in his training, as soon as Dekkers was well, he was back in the gym, working like a madman on the heavy bag, doing the repetitions necessary to develop his power.
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