demented

英 [dɪˈmentɪd]

美 [dɪˈmentɪd]

adj.  极度焦躁不安的; 忧虑失常的; 发狂的; 痴呆的

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Collins.1 / BNC.15179 / COCA.17632

牛津词典

adj.

• 极度焦躁不安的；忧虑失常的；发狂的
  behaving in a crazy way because you are extremely upset or worried
  1. I've been nearly demented with worry about you.
     我一直为你担心，都快发疯了。
• 痴呆的；发狂的
  having a mental illness

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 精神错乱的;（尤指）患早老性痴呆的
  Someone who isdementedhas a severe mental illness, especially Alzheimer's disease.
  1. At what point does it become necessary to place a demented person in a nursing home?
     到了什么时候算是有必要把早老性痴呆病人送到养老院去？
• ADJ-GRADED 古怪的;愚蠢的;疯狂的
  If you describe someone asdemented, you think that their actions are strange, foolish, or uncontrolled.
  1. He had been granted his own TV show by some demented executive...
     某个愚蠢的主管已经批准他自己来做一个电视节目。
  2. Sid broke into demented laughter.
     锡德狂笑起来。

英英释义

adj

• affected with madness or insanity
  1. a man who had gone mad
  Synonym:brainsickcrazydisturbedmadsickunbalancedunhinged

双语例句

• Nursing a demented person is an all-consuming task
  照顾一个精神病人是时刻都要劳神费力的苦差事。
• And even if they were tolerably normal to start off with, the stress, the power and the glory often makes them demented in the end.
  即便他们一开始尚能表现正常，但压力、权力和荣耀往往使他们最终精神错乱。
• He writes in despair, and the result is a demented book that no publisher will handle.
  他是在绝望中写作的，写出来的是一本疯狂的书，哪个出版商都不肯碰它。
• Her poor demented sister had killed herself by jumping off a bridge.
  她那可怜的疯姐姐跳桥自杀了。
• Sid broke into demented laughter.
  锡德狂笑起来。
• Or it leads them to seek further thrills in cocaine ( or similar)-which makes them more demented still.
  或者，这会使他们通过可卡因（或类似毒品）寻求更大的兴奋而这将让他们精神更加错乱。
• I've been nearly demented with worry about you.
  我一直为你担心，都快发疯了。
• This struck me as an odd choice of idiom in an era when demented mortgage practices have triggered worldwide economic catastrophe.
  在这个由疯狂的按揭行为触发了全球经济灾难的时代，这让我感觉古怪地选择了这么一句谚语。
• I don't mention that it's a prophecy& that my staying here for three or four months was predicted two years ago by an elderly and quite possibly demented Balinese medicine man, during a ten-minute palm-reading.
  我并未提及这是预言&两年前有个年老而且很可能精神错乱的巴厘药师，在看过十分钟我的手相后，预言我将在此地待上三或四个月。
• It was growling like something demented, which it was, of course, and its backside was almost in my face even my peril in no way diminished the frightful stench of the creature.
  它发狂地嗷叫着，对，是发狂了。屁股几乎挨着我的脸&尽管我身处险境，可仍闻到这家伙身上可怕的恶臭。