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单词 amok
释义
amok
adverb
(alsoamuck)
uk
/əˈmɒk/us
/əˈmʌk/
run amok
to be out ofcontrolandactin awildordangerousmanner:
狂乱，狂暴，发狂
Thesoldiersranamok after one oftheirseniorofficerswaskilled.一名高级军官被杀后，这支军队开始胡作非为。
The twodogsranamok in aschoolplayground.那两条狗在学校操场上厮咬起来。
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(Definition ofamokfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofamok

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The aggrandizing state has runamokand collectivism has triumphed across the globe.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Virtuality is what everything else becomes when belief in belief has runamok.
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The only exception isamok(or amuck) - an adjective or adverb.
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The pragmatic aspects of allowing certain theories to runamokin society are too complex to deal with here.
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And when the immune system bizarrely turned on its own host in pathological autoimmune reactions, this was evidence of immunity runamok.
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The most important point at issue is that we should ensure that the alien creature is not allowed to runamok.
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There too, as we see, armed militias runamokwithout let or hindrance.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We have recently seen a "runningamok", or the early stages of "runningamok", in the hire-purchase business.
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Nobody is going to runamokin this matter.
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They have been used, for example, to disarm persons runningamok, to quell prison disturbances, to apprehend armed criminals and to disperse rioters.
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We have to be careful of psychiatrists now and then perhaps runningamokamongst us.
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It seems to me that this is yet more bureaucracy runamok.
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Frankenstein built a complex monster, which, in the end, ranamok, and the only way to destroy it was by fire.
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Youngsters are runningamok, knowing perfectly well that they are largely immune from being caught.
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Do they think that they will runamokif they are given this power?
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