madness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 疯狂， 疯病，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their chil-dren, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions.
-- 'It would be madness if I asked you to escape; but do I?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What madness is this?"
-- And as soon as an important moment of life comes, like the children when they are cold and hungry, I turn to Him, and even less than the children when their mother scolds them for their childish mischief, do I feel that my childish efforts at wanton madness are reckoned against me.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- III As sharply and quite as impersonally as he would have watched the crawling illness of an infected guinea pig, Martin watched himself, in the madness of overwork, drift toward neurasthenia.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Let's have it all out at once!They've talked of madness already, I noticed.)
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A great hope had latterly germinated in Boldwood, whose unreasoning devotion to Bathsheba could only be characterized as a fond madness which neither time nor circumstance, evil nor good report, could weaken or destroy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My tale was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness by the vulgar.
-- After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that re-sembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and var-ied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.
-- I thought with a sen-sation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
-- Memory brought madness with it, and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me; sometimes I was furious and burnt with rage, sometimes low and de-spondent.
-- In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational crea-ture and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the while knowing the madness of my heart to be so very mad and misplaced, that I was quite conscious it would have served my face right, if I had lifted it up by my hair, and knocked it against the pebbles as a punishment for belonging to such an idiot.
-- Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no; such folly and madness cannot be allowed."
-- He found out the entrance to the bowels of the earth, he has indicated correctly, but that he or anyone else ever followed up the discovery is madness to suppose."
-- In the state of prostration to which I was reduced, it was madness to think of ever again seeing the light of day.
-- Insensate folly and madness to entertain even a shadow of hope!
-- Madness must have taken possession of me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His very intensity and acumen in the affairs of the pits seemed like a manifestation of madness to her, his very inspirations were the inspirations of insanity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had related this, with an emphasis and poise on the word, 'assassin,' peculiarly belonging to his own language, and which did not serve to render it less terrible to Clennam, he suddenly sprang to his feet, pounced upon the bill again, and with a vehemence that would have been absolute madness in any man of Northern origin, cried 'Behold the same assassin!Here he is!'
-- These were, in effect, because the whole town, or he might say the whole country, was in the first madness of the late discovery, and the resentment against the victims would be very strong: those who had not been deluded being certain to wax exceedingly wroth with them for not having been as wise as they were: and those who had been deluded being certain to find excuses and reasons for themselves, of which they were equally certain to see that other sufferers were wholly devoid: not to mention the great probability of every individual sufferer persuading himself, to his violent indignation, that but for the example of all the other sufferers he never would have put himself in the way of suffering.
-- It was a madness in me, and she could raise it whenever she liked.
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