madhouse的意思|madhouse的解释-里氏词典

madhouse ['mædhaus]

n. 精神病院, 极为吵闹的场所

madhouse

[ noun ]
pejorative terms for an insane asylum
<noun.artifact>

Madhouse \Mad"house`\, n.
1. An house or institution where insane persons are confined;
an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a
deprecatory sense.

Syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny
farm, funny house, loony bin, nuthouse, sanatorium.

2. Hence: (fig.) A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered
situation.
[PJC]

They lost their customer base," said Karen Sacks, an analyst with Standard and Poor's Corp. in New York. "I think Wednesday will be a madhouse at Sears.
And a madhouse." Ms. Bond, who grew up in Los Angeles in a family of musicians, was planning to sing in grand opera until she discovered that the only roles likely to be assigned to a short, small-boned blond woman were the soubrettes.
Writers Andrei Plesu and Mircea Dinescu were under virtual house arrest after penning protests, while another writer, Dan Desliu, spent two weeks in a Bucharest madhouse for his dissent.

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