| 单词 | mad scientist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmad scientist mad scientist n. a scientist who is mad or eccentric, esp. so as to be dangerous or evil: a stock figure of melodramatic horror stories; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person > specific mad scientist1893 flat-earth-man1908 flat-earther1934 1893 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 11 July 6/3 Nerving myself for the blow, I felled the mad scientist dead at my feet. 1908 ‘R. McDonald’ (title) Mad scientist: a tale of the future. 1940 ‘N. Blake’ Malice in Wonderland iii. xviii. 282 A sort of mad-scientist motive for the whole series of outrages. 1963 ‘G. Bagby’ Murder's Little Helper (1964) iv. 36 The whole idea smacked too much of some mad-scientist fable out of a comic strip. 1972 B. Turner Solden's Women ix. 82 He would have passed for the mad scientist in one of those films which star giant insects. 1999 N.Y. Times 7 Jan. d 4/2 The characters are..all wildly charismatic and telegenic:..artist, street thug, office girl, space alien, budding mad scientist. < as lemmas |
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