| 释义 |
mad-brained, a.|ˈmædbreɪnd|
Having or manifesting a mad brain; hot-headed, uncontrolled.
1577G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 57 And Skelton that same madbraynd knave Look how he knawes a deade horse boane. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 165 This mad-brain'd bridegroome tooke him such a cuffe, That downe fell Priest and booke. 1607― Timon v. i. 177 Giuing our holy Virgins to the staine Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd warre. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cxlvii, The Mad⁓Brain'd Spartacus. 1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless I. 104 The heedless levities of the one sex, and the mad-brained passions of the other. 1819Shelley Peter Bell vi. xx, A mad-brained goblin for a guide. 1894G. M. Fenn Real Gold 379 Your father's mad-brained ideas. |