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bedlam

/bed-luhm/US // ˈbɛd ləm //UK // (ˈbɛdləm) //

卧床不起,卧铺,卧病在床,卧病不起

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
    • : Archaic. an insane asylum or madhouse.

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Examples

  • My wife agreed to have a look, and we strolled onto the pier to find it in total shrimping bedlam.

  • Casa Bruja is a diamond in the rough, a refuge among all this bedlam.

  • Arriving at the Melody Ballroom, the atmosphere was a frenzy of joy, jubilation and holy bedlam.

  • It was festive and crazed but never mere bedlam; Fallon is too disciplined and too conservative to allow that.

  • Ironically, Fayyad ended up bearing the brunt of the blame for the continuing bedlam and economic distress on the West Bank.

  • The slippery slope argument isn't helpful when past history has demonstrated Senate rules can be changed without inducing bedlam.

  • He was remitted to Bedlam, and became an awful warning that God will not always be insulted with impunity.

  • Among other disguises, many affected madness, and were distinguished by the name of Bedlam Beggars.

  • There followed a wild yell, a pandemonium as though Bedlam had been turned loose, and then a heavy fall and sudden quiet.

  • For a second she was uncertain from whence the bedlam came; then she leaped from the bed and ran to the closed door.

  • The mad maid of the poets is a vagrant too, when she is free, and not singing within Bedlam early in the morning, “in the spring.”