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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ungovernable rage and madness took entire possession of Gania, and his fury burst out without the least attempt at restraint.
-- I wrote you this in yesterday's letter, in order that you might forget all that madness on your part, and that you might not feel called to talk about it when we met.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am convinced that only the madness of unendurable fear could have prompted this attack.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- When ye are full-fed, the madness may come upon you again.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twas downright madness to show six feet of flesh and blood, on a naked rock, to the raging savages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What rebellious thoughts of the cool river, and some shady bathing-place beneath willow trees with branches dipping in the water, kept tempting and urging that sturdy boy, who, with his shirt-collar unbuttoned and flung back as far as it could go, sat fanning his flushed face with a spelling-book, wishing himself a whale, or a tittlebat, or a fly, or anything but a boy at school on that hot, broiling day!Heat!ask that other boy, whose seat being nearest to the door gave him opportunities of gliding out into the garden and driving his companions to madness by dipping his face into the bucket of the well and then rolling on the grass ask him if there were ever such a day as that, when even the bees were diving deep down into the cups of flowers and stopping there, as if they had made up their minds to retire from business and be manufacturers of honey no more.
-- Her grandfather lay sleeping safely at her side, and the crime to which his madness urged him, was not committed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh God, the wheels within wheels of people, it makes one's head tick like a clock, with a very madness of dead mechanical monotony and meaninglessness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, hard!that to fire others, the match itself must needs be wasting!What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!They think me mad Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened!That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and Aye!I lost this leg.
-- And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics, and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn swells, and he came forth from his dark den into the blessed light and air; even then, when he bore that firm, collected front, however pale, and issued his calm orders once again; and his mates thanked God the direful madness was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved on.
-- Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
-- But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished.
-- Our sail was now set, and, with the still rising wind, we rushed along; the boat going with such madness through the water, that the lee oars could scarcely be worked rapidly enough to escape being torn from the row-locks.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He has only two thousand pounds of his own; it would be madness to marry upon that, though for my own part, I could give up every prospect of more without a sigh.
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