insanity
insanity 英 [ɪnˈsænəti] 美 [ɪnˈsænətɪ]
n. 疯狂；精神错乱；精神病；愚顽
名词复数:insanities
- Insanity is an ongoing state of extreme mental illness, which may cause abnormal or antisocial behaviors. If you bark at cats and meow at dogs, you might suffer from insanity.
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- n. 疯狂；精神错乱；精神病；愚顽
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1. In her defense Halen alleged temporary insanity.
在答辩中，海伦提出一时的精神错乱为借口。
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2. The jury was told they had a "straightforward choice" of clearing him of murder or finding him not guilty by reason of insanity.
陪审团被告知，他们有一个“直接了当的选择”，那就是免于其谋杀的罪名，或因精神错乱的原因而认定其无罪”。
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3. This, Barker deduced, was because they were burying their insanity deep beneath a facade of normality.
巴克推断说，这是因为他们把疯狂的一面深深的掩藏在他们正常的外表下。
- insanity (n.) 1580s, "state of being insane, seriously impaired state of mental functioning," from Latin insanitatem (nominative insanitas) "unhealthfulness, unsoundness, disease," noun of quality from insanus "mad, insane; outrageous, excessive" (see insane). Meaning "extreme folly" is from 1844. The Latin abstract noun was insania ""unsoundness of mind, madness, frenzy."
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