amok
amok 英 [əˈmɒk] 美 [əˈmɑk]
adv. 狂乱地；杀人狂地 adj. 杀人狂的；狂乱的
- You think Mittens the kitten is gentle and sweet, and then one day she runs amok, ripping up Grandma's favorite armchair until its cottony guts are hanging out. Time to take Mittens to get her claws trimmed.
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- adv. 狂乱地；杀人狂地
- adj. 杀人狂的；狂乱的
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1. Responsiveness can also be a double-edged sword, either keeping unelected intelligence officials from running amok or making them run in too many directions at once.
热诚是一把双刃剑，它会防止某些情报官员成为杀人狂，但同时也会让他们陷入太多的说明性工作之中。
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2. An Indian inventor has created a device to stop rampaging elephants in their tracks, amid concern about human injuries and deaths when they run amok, his company said last week.
印度某公司上周表示，该公司一名发明家已设计出一款装置，可以让抓狂乱冲的大象止步，减少人类受伤或丧生的机率。
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3. He calls the proliferation of master's degrees evidence of “credentialing gone amok.
他称硕士学位的泛滥迹象是“文凭获得走向狂乱。”
- amok (adv.) in run amok a verbal phrase first recorded 1670s, from Malay (Austronesian) amuk "attacking furiously." Earlier the word was used as a noun or adjective meaning "a frenzied Malay," originally in the Portuguese form amouco or amuco.
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