mad

英 [mæd] 美[mæd]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词annoyed disagreeable ornery angry irritable furious cross

反义词

adj. 疯狂的；发疯的；愚蠢的；着迷的
n. 狂怒

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中文词源

mad 发疯的

来自Proto-Germanic*maid,变坏，恶化，来自PIE*mei,改变，词源同mutual,miss.后引申词义心理失常的，发疯的。

词态变化

比较级: madder;最高级: maddest;

英文词源

mad: mad: [13] The underlying etymological meaning of mad is ‘changed’. It goes back ultimately to Indo-European *moitó-, a past participial form based on *moi-, *mei-, ‘change’ (source also of Latin mūtāre ‘change’, from which English gets mutate). Prehistoric Germanic inherited it, adding the collective prefix *ga- to form *gamaithaz, which passed into Old English as gemād ‘insane’. From this was derived the verb gemǣdan ‘madden’, whose past participle gemǣded eventually became a new adjective gemǣdd. By the Middle English period this had become amadd, and the reduced prefix aeventually disappeared, leaving mad.
=> mutate
mad (adj.): late 13c., from Old English gemædde (plural) "out of one's mind" (usually implying also violent excitement), also "foolish, extremely stupid," earlier gemæded "rendered insane," past participle of a lost verb *gemædan "to make insane or foolish," from Proto-Germanic *ga-maid-jan, demonstrative form of *ga-maid-az "changed (for the worse), abnormal" (cognates: Old Saxon gimed "foolish," Old High German gimeit "foolish, vain, boastful," Gothic gamaiþs "crippled, wounded," Old Norse meiða "to hurt, maim"), from intensive prefix *ga- + PIE *moito-, past participle of root *mei- (1) "to change" (cognates: Latin mutare "to change," mutuus "done in exchange," migrare "to change one's place of residence;" see mutable).

Emerged in Middle English to replace the more usual Old English word, wod (see wood (adj.)). Sense of "beside oneself with excitement or enthusiasm" is from early 14c. Meaning "beside oneself with anger" is attested from early 14c., but deplored by Rev. John Witherspoon (1781) as an Americanism. It now competes in American English with angry for this sense. Of animals, "affected with rabies," from late 13c. Phrase mad as a March hare is attested from 1520s, via notion of breeding season; mad as a hatter is from 1829 as "demented," 1837 as "enraged," according to a modern theory supposedly from erratic behavior caused by prolonged exposure to poison mercuric nitrate, used in making felt hats. For mad as a wet hen see hen. Mad money is attested from 1922; mad scientist is from 1891.
mad (adv.): late 14c., from mad (adj.).

双语例句

1. " Queer " is the word often used euphemistically for " mad ".: “ Queer ” 这个词常用作 “ mad ” 的委婉语.

2. There are certain things he does that drive me mad.: 他的某些举动让我很生气。

3. She's not as mad about sport as I am.: 她不像我对体育那么痴迷。

4. You are mad, Isabel. You should be locked up.: 你疯了，伊莎贝尔。应该把你关起来才是。

5. The family's hopping mad that she left them nothing.: 这家人因为她什么也没有给他们留下而气得跳脚。

英英释意

1. roused to anger;: "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

2. affected with madness or insanity;: "a man who had gone mad"

3. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;: "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"

4. very foolish;: "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

考试真题

Francesca Haass, a senior at middlebury, says, "I find the in-class ones are more stressful in the short term, but there is immediate relief as you swallow information like mad, and then you get to forget it all."

When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage.

If humans are generally geared to recall details about one another, this pattern is probably even more powerful among teenagers who are very attentive to social details: who is in, who is out, who likes whom, who is mad at whom.

Mum and I became mad with him for placing our family in trouble.

实用场景例句

They realized that he had gone mad .: 他们意识到他疯了。

Inventors are not mad scientists.: 发明家不是精神不正常的科学家。

I'll go mad if I have to wait much longer.: 如果还要等更久的话，我会发疯的。

She seemed to have gone stark raving mad .: 她好像是完全疯了。

You must be mad to risk it.: 你去冒这种风险，简直是疯了。

It was a mad idea.: 那是个愚蠢透顶的想法。

‘I'm going to buy some new clothes. ’ ‘Well, don't go mad (= spend more than is sensible) . ’: “我要去买几件新衣服。”“去吧，可别乱花钱。”

He got mad and walked out.: 他大动肝火，愤然离去。

She's mad at me for being late.: 我迟到了，她非常气愤。

(British English) That noise is driving me mad .: 那噪声真让我受不了。

(British English) He'll go mad when he sees the damage.: 他看到这样的破坏准会气疯的。

to be mad on tennis: 对网球着迷

He's always been mad about kids.: 他一向特别喜欢孩子。

football-mad boys: 迷恋足球的男孩儿

She's completely power-mad.: 她权迷心窍。

The crowd made a mad rush for the exit.: 人群疯狂地冲向出口处。

Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time.: 他们一阵狂奔，总算准时到达会场。

She was afraid of going mad.: 她担心自己会疯掉。

...the mad old lady from down the street.: 沿街走来的那位精神失常的老太太

You'd be mad to work with him again...: 你要再和他一起工作那简直是疯了。

Isn't that a rather mad idea?: 那难道不是一个愚蠢透顶的想法吗？

You're just mad at me because I don't want to go...: 因为我不想去，你就对我火冒三丈。

I'm pretty mad about it, I can tell you.: 告诉你，我对这件事感到非常恼火。

She's not as mad about sport as I am...: 她不像我对体育那么痴迷。

He's mad about you...: 他很迷恋你。

You only have an hour to complete the game so it's a mad dash against the clock...: 你只有一个小时来完成这场比赛，所以得铆足劲头争分夺秒。

The audience went mad.: 观众们十分狂热。

There are certain things he does that drive me mad...: 他的某些举动让我很生气。

This itching is driving me mad.: 这种瘙痒简直快把我折磨疯了。

He was weight training like mad.: 他在拼命地进行负重训练。

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