1. 词析:
lunacy是一个名词,意思是“疯狂,疯狂行为,疯狂状态”,常常与insanity和madness等词语搭配使用。它还可以用来形容某种行为或决策的愚蠢或荒谬,即“蠢事”。
2. 文化背景:
lunacy这个单词源于拉丁文的“luna”,意思是“月亮”。在古代,许多人相信月亮对人类的心理产生了影响,因此精神病患者会被描述为受到月亮的影响而变得疯狂。虽然这种信念已经被科学证明是错误的,但这个单词仍然保留了这个历史背景。
3. 用法指南:
lunacy通常用于书面语或正式场合,而口语中则更常用madness或craziness等词语。此外,它也常常被用于比喻性语境中,来表示某种奇怪、不合理或荒谬的行为。
中英例句:
1. His suggestion that we should all jump off the roof was nothing but lunacy.
他说我们都应该下去,这完全是疯话。
2. The decision to cut funding for education was an act of political lunacy.
削减教育经费的决定是上的愚蠢行为。
3. She was convinced that the full moon caused her fits of lunacy.
她坚信满月会导致她疯狂发作。
4. The film was a masterpiece of visual lunacy, with surreal landscapes and bizarre creatures.
这部电影是视觉上的一场疯狂杰作,有着超现实的风景和奇异的生物。
5. It was sheer lunacy to think that he could climb the mountain without any equipment.
他认为不用任何器材就能爬上山,这纯属疯狂。
lunacy的中文翻译:疯狂,疯癫,精神失常
读音:lu·na·cy [ˈluːnəsi]
例句:
1. The idea was dismissed as sheer lunacy.
这个想法被认为是纯粹的疯狂。
2. His behavior began to border on the edge of lunacy.
他的行为开始接近疯狂的边缘。
3. The inmates at the asylum were all suffering from various forms of lunacy.
精神病院的病人都患有不同类型的精神失常。
lunacy在英语中代表"医、精神病"的意思,作为名词时有"疯狂愚蠢的行为"的意思,发音是['lu:nәsi],在英语中以名词出现较多,在《英国翻译词典》中,共找到99个与lunacy相关的例句。
Lunacy的释义
1.医
例句:Whether he sought to make amends or was touched by her lunacy... he married her. (不知道是因为想弥补 还是被她的疯狂行为感动了 后来他还是娶了她)
2.精神病
例句:Meet professor Nick Cutter, a fascinating study in the tipping point between inspiration and lunacy. (这位是Nick Cutter教授 是展示天才与疯子有多接近的活标本)
3.疯狂愚蠢的行为
例句:The word lunacy, meaning "madness, " is derived from Luna, the Latin name for the Roman goddess of the moon. (“lunacy”这个表示“疯狂”的词源自“Luna”一罗马神话中月光女神的拉丁名。)
4.愚蠢的行为、疯狂愚蠢的行为
例句:And it strikes me that you are afflicted with precisely such lunacy. (翻译:照你的言行举止 看来你也是个昏庸无能之士)
用法及短语
lunacy一般作为名词使用,如在interdiction of lunacy([经] 因精神病而禁治产)、Lunacy Act([网络] 精神错乱法;失常法)等常见短语中出现较多。
interdiction of lunacy | [经] 因精神病而禁治产 |
Lunacy Act | [网络] 精神错乱法;失常法 |
例句
1. The word lunacy, meaning "madness, " is derived from Luna, the Latin name for the Roman goddess of the moon. (翻译:“lunacy”这个表示“疯狂”的词源自“Luna”一罗马神话中月光女神的拉丁名。)
2. And it strikes me that you are afflicted with precisely such lunacy. (翻译:照你的言行举止 看来你也是个昏庸无能之士)
3. In comparison to the sheer lunacy into cycling to the headwind to cross the country for a case of beer, (翻译:和骑着单车 穿过整个国家为了赢得 一箱啤酒相比)
4. Now, that was the story of me then, my good old days of right-wing lunacy. (翻译:现在,讲讲我自己的故事, 我美好的的疯狂岁月。)
5. It remains lunacy to produce yet more coal to add to power stations' stockpiles. (翻译:发电站的积存如此多却还在生产更多的煤,这实在是荒谬。)
6. At first glance, killing off Cingular seemed brand lunacy. (翻译:粗略看来,扼杀Cingular是个愚蠢的决定。)
7. The word lunacy, meaning "madness", is derived from Luna, the Latin name for the Roman goddess of the moon. (翻译:“lunacy”这个表示“疯狂”的词源自“Luna ”,是罗马神话中月光女神的拉丁名。)
8. tried to jump out of the fortieth-floor window in a moment of utter lunacy . (翻译:在突发的精神失常中试图从四楼的窗户跳出去。)
9. Speak out, speak up, call lunacy what it is: lunacy. (翻译:说出来, 发出你的声音, 叫出“疯狂”的真实意义: 疯狂。)
10. It's sheer lunacy driving in such weather. (翻译:天气这样糟糕还,真是疯了。)
11. Everyone in his village tries to convince him to give up his lunacy, going so far as to burn some of the lurid books in his personal library. (翻译:同村庄的每个人 都试图劝说他放弃这些愚蠢行为, 村民甚至不惜烧掉 堂吉诃德书房中的部分骑士小说。)
12. Now, that was the story of me then, my good old days of right-wing lunacy. (翻译:现在,讲讲我自己的故事, 我美好的的疯狂岁月。)
13. And giving you a straight answer does not fall within my mandate of lunacy. (翻译:直接回答你的问题不在我精神失常的工作之内)
近义词&反义词
lunacy作为名词的时候,其近义词以及反义词有s、lunacies等。
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