The film is a powerful study of a woman's descent into insanity...那部電影深入剖析了一個女人墮入瘋狂的過程。The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.辯方以精神錯亂為由進行申辯,但被告被判有罪并獲刑。
N-UNCOUNT
極端的愚蠢(行為);荒唐(事)
If you describe a decision or an action as insanity, you think it is very foolish.
例句
It was a period of collective insanity, of legalized murder and mayhem.那是個集體喪失理智、謀殺與暴力合法化的時期。...the final financial insanity of the 1980s.20 世紀 80 年代最后的財政瘋狂
英漢詞典釋義
n.
精神錯亂；精神失常；精神病；瘋狂
the boundary between sanity and insanity神志正常與不正常的分界線In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他偽稱一時精神錯亂,為自己辯解。There was a streak of insanity in the family.這個家族有精神錯亂的傾向。The legal concept of insanity is of a different nature from the medical.精神錯亂的法律概念與醫學概念在性質上是不同的。
<律>(被認為行為者可免負法律責任的)精神失常，神智迷亂
At the murder trial, he pleaded insanity.在兇殺案的審理過程中，他以精神失常為由進行抗辯。