【amok】 - SAT备考词汇

amok

UK:  [ə'mɒk]

US:  [ə'mɒk]

n.

1.杀人狂

adv.

1.疯狂地

2.混乱地,失控地

adj.

1.杀人狂的;狂暴的

1 . The Moons chariot shall run amok in the Zodiac; the Pleiades will burst into tears. None of these will return to the duty expected of it.
月亮的战车会疯狂地走进黄道带，昴宿星会爆炸成碎块，不会回归到所期待的责任上。

2 . In the West, there seems to be a strong tendency over decades to view robots as something evil, like technology run amok.
数十年来，西方似乎有一股强大的趋势，将机器人视为某种邪恶的东西，像科技的暴走族横冲直撞。

3 . The little cretin stewardess was now ruined for normal love and she ran amok among the other freaks, inflaming them.
痴呆姑娘的小羊皮被正常的爱给摧毁了，她发疯似的狂奔向其它畸形怪胎，点燃了他们。

4 . I cut out the page and stuck it above my desk: a warning of what could happen if innovation were allowed to run amok.
我把广告那页剪下来，贴在我的桌子上方，提醒自己：如果允许创新疯狂驰骋，会发生什么。

5 . And there are many cities where an angry minority is ready to run amok: think of Budapest in 2006 or Paris in 2005.
很多城市都存在着随时随地可以变成杀人狂少数派，他们终日处于愤恨的状态中，比如2006年布达佩斯事件和2005年的巴黎骚乱。