| 词汇 | amok |
| 释义 | amok adverb (alsoamuck)uk /əˈmɒk/ us /əˈmʌk/ run amok to be out of control and act in a wild or dangerous manner: 狂乱，狂暴，发狂 The soldiers ran amok after one of their senior officers was killed.一名高级军官被杀后，这支军队开始胡作非为。 The two dogs ran amok in a school playground.那两条狗在学校操场上厮咬起来。 Uncontrolled all hell breaks looseidiom amuck corybantic crazily cut looseidiom madding maniacal maniacally non-regulated out of handidiom spread like wildfireidiom squirrelly tearaway unbridled uncheckable wayward waywardly waywardness wig out wigged out Examples of amokamok The aggrandizing state has run amok and collectivism has triumphed across the globe. Virtuality is what everything else becomes when belief in belief has run amok. The only exception is amok (or amuck) - an adjective or adverb. The pragmatic aspects of allowing certain theories to run amok in society are too complex to deal with here. And when the immune system bizarrely turned on its own host in pathological autoimmune reactions, this was evidence of immunity run amok. The most important point at issue is that we should ensure that the alien creature is not allowed to run amok. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There too, as we see, armed militias run amok without let or hindrance. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have recently seen a "running amok", or the early stages of "running amok", in the hire-purchase business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody is going to run amok in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been used, for example, to disarm persons running amok, to quell prison disturbances, to apprehend armed criminals and to disperse rioters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to be careful of psychiatrists now and then perhaps running amok amongst us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that this is yet more bureaucracy run amok. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Frankenstein built a complex monster, which, in the end, ran amok, and the only way to destroy it was by fire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Youngsters are running amok, knowing perfectly well that they are largely immune from being caught. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do they think that they will run amok if they are given this power? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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