madhouse

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈmædˌhaʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum. obsolete
    — The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.
  2. A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place. broadly,figuratively
    — This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses.

词形变化

madhouses plural

词源

From mad + house.
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