单词 | mad |
释义 | mad I. 1. a. < the man was mad and had berserk fits of superhuman strength and rage — Charles Kingsley > b. < no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul — Bram Stoker > 2. a. < she's mad … to throw away money and position for some hole-and-corner existence with a good-looking lawyer's clerk — Clara Morris > b. < was so astounded by this mad project on the part of her husband … that she had not a word to say — William Black > c. < facts which fairly shriek for explanation; for without an explanation they're mad, irrational, utterly incredible — W.H.Wright > 3. a. < was so mad … that I thought I could shoot the man — Liam O'Flaherty > b. < looked mad for a second but then … began to laugh — Robert Lowry > < mad as a wet hen > 4. a. < men were mad for her and any girl liked men's attentions — Barnaby Conrad > < was not fundamentally mad about a home and kids — Rex Ingamells > < the students were all perfectly mad on highbrow music — Arnold Bennett > b. < a nation … engaged in the mad pursuit of wealth — Saturday Review > < has been having a mad vogue in Europe and is constantly written about — New Yorker > 5. < a mad dog > 6. < of their childhood, of the mad pranks they played — Winston Churchill > 7. a. < driving him mad with jealousy — Edmund Wilson > b. < tried to reach it in a mad resolve to claw into the wood with my nails — Jack London > 8. < a mad scramble for the sides of the ship — A.C.Whitehead > Synonyms: see angry II. intransitive verb archaic transitive verb a. archaic b. III. 1. < the fight had taken all the mad out of me — H.E.Giles > 2. < had worked up a mad before he bayoneted the corporal — R.O.Bowen > < still had a bit of a mad on — William Forrest > |
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