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

• Private risk-taking run amok has plunged the country into its worst recession in decades.
  私营企业不顾危险，最终失去控制，导致美国陷入了几十年不遇的经济萧条。
• 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。
• Mr Cheney's new memoir, despite its breezy self-justification, does little to dispel that notion, showing exactly how a vice-president can run amok.
  这本回忆录确切的显示了身为副总统，切尼如何能够胆大包天、胡作非为。
• The elephants had a tendency to panic and run amok.
  那些大象容易惊慌和发狂。
• 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 two dogs ran amok in a school playground.
  那两条狗在学校的操场上狂咬乱窜。
• When turned loose with no competition, invasive species can run amok in an ecosystem and send a park's native residents toward extinction.
  当缺乏竞争之时，这些入侵的物种将会狂暴地进入生态系统，并将使公园的本地物种们陷入灭绝的境地。
• This isn't the first time Greenpeace has warned that illegal GMO grains may be running amok in China.
  这并非绿色和平第一次就转基因谷物或在中国泛滥的问题做出警告。
• Like agile software development, agile operations emphatically does not equate to cowboy administrators running amok on the systems, without plan or documentation.
  和敏捷软件开发一样，敏捷运维显然与那些“牛仔”管理员的方式不同，他们只会狂乱地管理系统而没有任何计划和文档。
• Mm. But I myself enjoy sleeping on the ground under the stars. The field mice, lacking natural predators, have flourished in numbers and are running amok destroying nature.
  呣.我自己还是喜欢躺在满天繁星下的地上。缺少天敌的田鼠们，繁殖、破坏起来自然随心所欲。