apoplectic
apoplectic 英 [ˌæpəˈplektɪk] 美 [ˌæpəˈplɛktɪk]
adj. 中风的；易怒的 n. 中风患者
名词复数:apoplectics
- Someone who is apoplectic is not just mad — they're so filled with rage, they can barely communicate. If your mother is apoplectic, you'd better hope it isn't over something you did.
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- adj. 中风的；易怒的
- n. 中风患者
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1. More to the point, her father would be apoplectic at the idea.
还有，孩子他爸可能会被女儿的这个主意引发中风的。
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2. Democrats, for their part, became apoplectic about a proposal to raise the retirement age for Social Security by one year — in 2050.
民主党，说到他们，在谈到将享受社保的年龄提高一岁这个问题上变得不可理喻，他们认为2050年才可能实现。
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3. Is it the sound of apoplectic readers typing irate e-mails about the subject of this column?
是怒火中烧的读者在敲键盘、写邮件投诉这个专栏话题吗？
- apoplectic (adj.) 1610s, "involving apoplexy," from French apoplectique (16c.), from Latin apoplecticus, from Greek apoplektikos "disabled by a stroke, crippled, struck dumb, senseless; crippled, palsied," extended form of apoplektos, verbal adjective of apoplessein "strike down and incapacitate" (see apoplexy). Meaning "showing symptoms of apoplexy" (1721) gradually shaded into "enraged, very angry" by early 19c. Noun meaning "one suffering apoplexy" is from 1660s.
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