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

• 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。
• I cut out the page and stuck it above my desk: a warning of what could happen if innovation were allowed to run amok.
  我把广告那页剪下来，贴在我的桌子上方，提醒自己：如果允许创新疯狂驰骋，会发生什么。
• 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。
• They're incorrigiblebecause you let them run amok.
  他们无可救药，都是因为你让他们放肆。
• 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。
• To me, this seems like wealth shame run amok.
  我觉得，这似乎是财富羞愧感过了头。
• 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。
• In cancer cells, NRF2 activity runs amok, sweeping away all cellular toxins, including chemotherapy agents.
  在癌细胞上，NRF2活性疯狂增强，细胞内的毒素包括化疗药物被彻底清除。
• 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。
• 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。