amok

英 [əˈmɒk]

美 [əˈmɑːk]

n.  杀人狂
adj.  狂乱的；杀人狂的
adv.  狂乱地；杀人狂地

医学

BNC.32686 / COCA.18140

习惯用语

adv.

run amok
• （尤指在公共场所）发狂，狂暴，疯狂
  to suddenly become very angry or excited and start behaving violently, especially in a public place

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE （人或动物）发狂，狂暴，疯狂
  If a person or animalruns amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
  1. A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin.
     一名士兵在疯狂飙车穿越柏林后被逮捕。

英英释义

adj

• frenzied as if possessed by a demon
  1. the soldier was completely amuck
  2. berserk with grief
  3. a berserk worker smashing windows
  Synonym:amuckberserkdemoniacdemoniacalpossessed(p)

adv

• in a murderous frenzy
  1. rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones
  Synonym:amuckmurderously
• wildly
  1. when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck, blocking the exit
  Synonym:amuck

双语例句

• Ireland and Spain had strong fiscal positions throughout: it was private borrowing that ran amok.
  从始至终，爱尔兰和西班牙的财政状况都很强劲：陷入疯狂的是私人借贷。
• Trash talking and egos run amok, "said one auto executive who declined to be identified."
  一位拒绝透露身份的汽车行业高管称：“口水战和自我中心主义四处横行。”
• A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin.
  一名士兵在疯狂飙车穿越柏林后被逮捕。
• If there are tigers running amok, I'll take precautions, but that's no reason why I should give in to Wu sun-fu completely.
  老虎发疯，我要严防，但是决不能因为有老虎在那里，我就退让到不成话！
• I want to be helpful, especially to people who have been job hunting for a long time, but this is networking run amok.
  我也希望能帮上忙，尤其是为那些花了很长时间找工作的人，但现在情况已经失去了控制。
• A man ran amok in the train yesterday? He struck two railway staff and smashed several carriage windows.
  昨天一位男子在火车上胡作非为？他打伤了两名铁路员工，砸碎了几扇车厢窗户。
• They're incorrigiblebecause you let them run amok.
  他们无可救药，都是因为你让他们放肆。
• The big male elephant is running amok in the village, tearing up the trees by their roots.
  那头大公象在村里发狂，将树全部连根拔起。
• Fortunately, certified seeing-eye dogs are invari-ably conscientious in their duties, but in today's cartoon American Pat Oliphant plays darkly with the image of a hound running amok.
  所幸的是，合格的导盲犬总是尽职尽责，但在今天刊登的这幅漫画中，美国漫画家帕特-奥列芬特以一只狂奔的狗玩了一次黑色幽默。
• The gunman ran amok, firing indiscriminately at passers-by.
  持枪歹徒大开杀戒，不分青红皂白向行人开枪。