- (old-fashioned)
the state of having a serious mental illness 精神失常；疯狂 There may be a link between madness and creativity. 在疯狂和创造力之间也许有着某种联系。 They say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness! 据说自言自语是精神错乱的先兆！
crazy or stupid behaviour that could be dangerous （会带来危险的）癫狂，疯狂，愚蠢行为 It would be sheer madness to trust a man like that. 信任他这样的人简直是愚蠢至极。 In a moment of madness she had agreed to go out with him. 由于一时糊涂，她同意和他约会。 The real victim in this collective madness is our society. 这种集体疯狂的真正受害者是我们的社会。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- pure
- …
- the first sign of madness
- a moment of madness
Idioms
there’s (a) method in somebody’s madness
there is a reason for somebody’s behaviour and it is not as strange or as stupid as it seems 看来奇怪（或愚蠢）的行为有其道理