O’Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy

奥勃良快把他折磨到了神经错乱的地步。

O’Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy , and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death

奥勃良折磨他，快到了神经错乱的边缘，而且有一阵子几乎可以肯定要把他送了命。

But all this was essentially dreamy lunacy

但这一切基本上是迷梦和狂想。

If that was the sort of lunacy we were going to get mixed up in, he, Luke, for one, hadn’t bargained on it

假使我们同这等狂人打交道的话，那么别人不说，至少他卢克是没有料想到的。

She saw that he stood on the verge of lunacy , if he had not already stepped across it. It was impossible to doubt, that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.

她亲眼看到，他已经站到发疯的边缘--如果说他还没有跨过那边缘处于疯狂状态的话。无庸置疑，不管自责的秘刺中有什么致痛的功效，那只提供救援之手又在那螫刺中注入了致他死命的毒液。

Suffering from lunacy ;insane.

精神错乱的遭受精神错乱的痛苦的;不清醒的

Characterized by lunacy or eccentricity.

精神错乱者的或为精神错乱病人而设立的

What you’re doing here is sheer lunacy

你们在这做的事，干脆就是发疯。

lunacy is always distressing, but sometimes it is dangerous

神经错乱肯定不是好事，甚至还会出危险

With arms lowered, he evaded punches by bending backwards at the waist---a defensive move that at the time was seen as sheer lunacy

他垂下手臂，往后弯腰闪避打来的拳头──这在当时被认为是极为愚蠢的防御动作。

It’s sheer lunacy driving in this weather

天气这麽坏还开车,简直是疯了

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy ?

温斯顿心里想，对于这样一个疯子，他比你聪明，他心平气和地听了你的论点，但是仍坚持他的疯狂，你有什么办法呢?

saying lines that teeter on the knife-edge between literature and lunacy (bVincent Canby)

吟咏着处在文学与疯人呓语徘徊的诗句(b文森特·坎比)

saying lines that teeter on the knife-edge between literature and lunacy (Vincent Canby)

吟咏着处在文学与疯人呓语徘徊的诗句(文森特·坎比)

His real perturbation of mind would be best covered and pass concealed under a disguise of pretended lunacy

在假装疯狂的掩护下，他心神的真正不安倒可以巧妙地遮盖起来。

tried to jump out of the fortieth-floor window in a moment of utter lunacy .

在突发的精神失常中试图从四楼的窗户跳出去。

At the time the book was written this idea, that human beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other, was one that I found amusing and regarded as quite possibly true

在写这本书的时候，我的想法是:人之所以被赋予自由意志，就是为了让他在两种疯狂状态中任择其一;当时我颇为这个想法洋洋自得，且相当自以为是。

This is sheer cock-eyed lunacy , absolute lunacy

这纯粹是一派胡言乱语，十足的瞎说八道。

It`s sheer lunacy .

这完全是愚蠢行为.

||1:To her credit, Ms Wisse offers no general theory of Jewish humour in her book, preferring description and textual analysis, at which she excels, to psycho-historical puffery.||2:Yet certain traits persist across temporal and geographic boundaries.||3:Jewish humour tends, paradoxically, to provoke both relief and discomfort, as with Heinrich Heine’s sharp send-ups of Jewish converts in early 19th-century Germany.||4:Much of it tends towards the absurd: consider the inspiring lunacy of Lenny Bruce, the dark surrealism of Franz Kafka or the comparatively light version that imbues the short fiction of Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer.

||1:出于她信誉的原因，Wisse并没有在书中做出犹太式笑话的概括性的论述，而是在她擅长的历史心理学吹赞方面做了些描述以及逐字逐句的分析。||2:但在一定时间、地理范围内是有确切依据的。||3:犹太式幽默常常是似是而非的，带来轻松或者抒发不悦，就像19世纪初德国的Heinrich Heine对犹太人尖酸嘲讽改变了一样。||4:很多犹太人都偏荒诞：比如鼓舞人心的疯子Lenny Bruce，暗黑超现实主义的Franz Kafka又或者相比之下程度较轻的以色列短片科幻小说作家Etgar Keret。

Lunacy ?

精神失常？

The word lunacy , meaning “madness, ” is derived from Luna, the Latin name for the Roman goddess of the moon.

“lunacy”这个表示“疯狂”的词源自“Luna”一罗马神话中月光女神的拉丁名。

A new poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC news provides another example of this. Let’s consider some of the lunacy .

《华尔街日报》和NBC（全国广播公司）实施的一个新的调查问卷为此提供了又一个例证.我们来看看这些无稽之谈。

At first glance, killing off Cingular seemed brand lunacy .

粗略看来，扼杀Cingular是个愚蠢的决定。

Bob Katter, an independent MP, called the proposal “lunacy on a grand scale” .

独立议员鲍勃•凯特（BobKatter）认为此项收购提案“极度之精神错乱”。

Lunacy , bankruptcy, suicide and other unthinkable fates sooner or later afflict the noblest of clans with an undertow of gloom.

疯狂的、破产的、自杀的以及其他的想象不到的天意迟早会以忧郁的回潮折磨家族的尊贵。

No one was predicting the Gaddafi regime would suddenly disintegrate into violence and lunacy .

没有人预计卡扎菲政权会突然崩溃，陷入暴力和混乱。

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language

你不得不对这种精神病一样的语言表示惊奇，

Critics deride the scheme as economic lunacy and a boon for construction companies such as the one Mr Lee used to run, Hyundai Construction.

批评家认为这个计划是经济上的疯狂、同时也是对建筑公司的恩惠，如李曾管理过的现代建设公司。

I’d be tempted to dismiss it as paranoid lunacy if it weren’t so obviously a crass, politically-motivated smear.

如果这不是明显的愚钝、有政治动机的诽谤诋毁，我会把它看作是偏执的精神失常而弃而不顾。

judge in lunacy

审理精神错乱案件的法官

master of lunacy

调查精神病患者的司法官员

commissioners in lunacy

精神病调查人