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maniac

/mey-nee-ak/US // ˈmeɪ niˌæk //UK // (ˈmeɪnɪˌæk) //

疯子,狂人,疯人院,神经病

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a raving or violently insane person; lunatic.
    • : any intemperate or overly zealous or enthusiastic person: a maniac when it comes to details.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : maniacal.

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Examples

  • He was hardly reassured when members of the university’s board of trustees, following a special executive meeting convened by the governor in March, described Wallace as “scared,” “crazy,” and acting “like a raving maniac.”

  • It would almost be less disturbing if he was showing some kind of sign he was a homicidal maniac.

  • Of course, Kim Jong-Un takes an image hit as a Katy Perry-obsessed, margarita-drinking maniac with daddy issues.

  • For as much as Walter was a maniac, he was at the forefront of printing art.

  • Tom Sizemore is, it seems, no longer a maniac—but he's convinced he can still play one onscreen.

  • “It fell out of the window, I think,” says the little maniac.

  • There, in the crush, he unceremoniously lost her, and sped like a maniac to the entrance gates.

  • On each side of the driver of the galloping steeds stood a man, shouting like a maniac of the boatswain type.

  • We do not blame the maniac who burns a house down and brains a policeman, nor the mad dog who bites a minor poet.

  • I regard Lucrezia Borgia as a homicidal maniac, and Torquemada as a religious maniac.

  • But Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.