喜樂美語
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    Insanity is the state of having a seriously disturbed mind, unable to think or behave normally — a serious medical and legal word (people can 'plead insanity' in court). In everyday, informal speech, people also use 'insanity' loosely to mean something extreme, crazy, or hard to believe, like 'this traffic is insanity.'

    精神失常、瘋狂;(口語)離譜、瘋狂的情況

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組成in (not) + sanity (a sound, healthy mind).

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  • sanethe opposite root word — insanity literally means 'not sane'

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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insanitynoun/ɪnˈsænɪti/

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    The state of being insane; madness.

    • The defendant pleaded insanity in the hope of getting a reduced sentence.
    • But the bed-side of Lady Marchmont had a darker lesson than the grave, the ravings of insanity revealed the fiery world of that beating and passionate heart. Ethel could only feel too fearful, too humbled, for judgment; but she wept, even while she prayed, beside her early friend.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。