英语词汇“madhouse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

madhouse

/ˈmadhaʊs

noun

1 historical An institution for the care of mentally ill people.As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman....

Written at the request of his father, the work focused on the abuses common in the madhouses of the time, and gave direction to the urgent need for reform.
One half of Customers and Patrons constitutes a transcription (with detailed annotation) of a case book of Dr John Monro, the physician to the Bethlem Asylum and the proprietor of several madhouses in the London region.

1.1 informal A psychiatric hospital.The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital....

Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic.
Agustín says he is leaving the madhouse for criminal lunatics before he becomes crazy too.

Synonyms

mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum

informal nuthouse, funny farm, loony bin

dated lunatic asylum

1.2 [in singular] informal A scene of extreme confusion or uproar: this place is a madhouse...

You will work with Japanese teachers at your schools and the locations vary from extremely rural to the madhouse that is Tokyo.
The office of the Ayurveda Congress is a madhouse of activity.
The place is a madhouse and colorful beyond description.

Synonyms

bedlam, mayhem, babel, chaos, pandemonium, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, scene of confusion, disorder, hurly-burly, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, madness, all hell broken loose;

North American three-ring circus

British informal car crash

单词	madhouse
释义	madhouse /ˈmadhaʊs / noun 1 historical An institution for the care of mentally ill people.As for Van Gogh, he was confined in a madhouse for one reason; he was a madman.... Written at the request of his father, the work focused on the abuses common in the madhouses of the time, and gave direction to the urgent need for reform. One half of Customers and Patrons constitutes a transcription (with detailed annotation) of a case book of Dr John Monro, the physician to the Bethlem Asylum and the proprietor of several madhouses in the London region. 1.1 informal A psychiatric hospital.The patients were held to basic standards of decent behavior and made to do chores in an environment more like a disciplined summer camp (or a well-run college group home) than a madhouse or hospital.... Inside, it smelled more like a madhouse than a clinic. Agustín says he is leaving the madhouse for criminal lunatics before he becomes crazy too. Synonyms mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum informal nuthouse, funny farm, loony bin dated lunatic asylum 1.2 [in singular] informal A scene of extreme confusion or uproar: this place is a madhouse... You will work with Japanese teachers at your schools and the locations vary from extremely rural to the madhouse that is Tokyo. The office of the Ayurveda Congress is a madhouse of activity. The place is a madhouse and colorful beyond description. Synonyms bedlam, mayhem, babel, chaos, pandemonium, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, scene of confusion, disorder, hurly-burly, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, madness, all hell broken loose; North American three-ring circus British informal car crash
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