rampant
rampant 英 [ˈræmpənt] 美 [ˈræmpənt]
adj. 猖獗的；蔓延的；狂暴的；奔放的
- Rampant means wild, out of control, to be up on your hind legs roaring at the world. You don't have to be four-legged: "The children ran rampant at the supermarket even though their mother tried to control them."
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- adj. 猖獗的；蔓延的；狂暴的；奔放的
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1. That, someone should have pointed out, is the result not of rampant globalisation but of poor domestic government.
有人指出，造成这样的结果并非因为全球化的蔓延，而是因为无能的政府。
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2. However, some financial advisers are warning against the rampant speculation the dollar has caused on Wall Street.
然而，一些金融顾问警告这张美元在华尔街所引起的猖獗的投机热潮。
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3. But I do miss the country that seemed interested in other things besides the rampant materialism that seems especially intense in China now.
但我确实怀念那个似乎对其他事情都感兴趣的国家——除了当今中国特别强烈的猖獗的物质主义。
- rampant (adj.) late 14c., "standing on the hind legs" (as a heraldic lion often does), thus, also, "fierce, ravenous" (late 14c.), from Old French rampant, present participle of ramper "to climb, scale, mount" (see rampage (v.)). Sense of "growing without check" (in running rampant), first recorded 1610s, probably is via the notion of "fierce disposition" or else preserves the older French sense.
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