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

• However mad I am feeling in these dark, demented days before Christmas, I keep reminding myself how much worse things could be.
  在圣诞节前黑暗、令人发疯的日子里，无论我感觉多么疯狂，我都提醒自己没准事情原本比这还要糟得多。
• I've been nearly demented with worry about you.
  我一直为你担心，都快发疯了。
• If that's truth is somewhere in that demented mind, he might know who killed my mother.
  如果这个神经错乱的家伙脑子里知道真相，他也许知道是谁杀了我母亲。
• 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。
• He was demented about New York City, Rudolph decided.
  他把纽约城恨得入骨，鲁道夫断定。
• 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。
• Whoever did this must have been demented; no sane person would have acted in such a way.
  凡是做这件事的人一定是疯了，任何正常人都不会这么做。
• 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。
• 'They looked sort of demented,' he said.
  他说，她们看上去有点精神错乱。