lunatic asylum

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈluː.nə.tɪk əˌsaɪ.ləm]
• 美式音标 [ˈluː.nə.t̬ɪk əˌsaɪ.ləm]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 精神病院，疯人院

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• The court committed her to a lunatic asylum.
  法院把她送进精神病院。
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• A patient in a lunatic asylum is fishing in a dry pond when a nurse passing by tries to tease him.
  疯人院里有一个精神病患者守着一个干涸了的池塘在钓鱼。 一个护士从旁边经过，看到这一幕觉得很好笑，便走上去逗弄他。
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• At the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, London, in 1873, a young physician who suspected so surgically removed small portions of the brain from two living monkeys.
  年，在伦敦西赖丁疯人院（West Riding Lunatic Asylum），一位对此心存怀疑的年轻内科医生用外科手术的方式取出两只活猴的一小部分大脑组织。

权威例句

• The security lights had been triggered and through the railings they had watched Manning roaming about, from time to time peering in at the downstairs windows of the lumpy red brick building that was said to have been a lunatic asylum once.
  NEWYORKER: Bravado
• Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal, sent with his partner (Mark Ruffalo) to seek a missing person who has escaped from the Ashecliffe lunatic asylum—not that there is much to escape to, since the asylum is on Shutter Island, miles from civilization in Boston Harbor.
  NEWYORKER: Shutter Island

词组短语

短语

• Lunatic Asylum Records 出版者
• in a lunatic asylum 在精神病院
• Bloody Lunatic Asylum 唱片名
• West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 西莱德贫民疯人院;唱片名
• bedlam lunatic asylum snake pit 疯人院

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a hospital for mentally ill people. This word is now considered offensive.

柯林斯英英字典

• A lunatic asylum was a place where mentally disturbed people used to be locked up.