crazy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cra·zy1 /ˈkreɪzi/ ●●● S2 adjective (comparative crazier, superlative craziest) 1 STRANGEMPSTRANGEstrange 奇怪的 very strange or not sensible 古怪的；疯狂的；不明智的 SYN mad The neighbours must think we’re crazy. 邻居一定会认为我们疯了。 It’s an absolutely crazy idea. 那绝对是个荒唐的想法。 I know this idea sounds crazy, but it may be worth a try. 我知道这个主意听起来很荒唐，但也许值得一试。crazy to do something It’d be crazy to go out in this rain. 在这样的大雨天出去简直是发疯了。 I must have been crazy to agree to this. 我一定是疯了，竟然同意这件事。 He often works 12 hours a day – it’s crazy. 他常常一天工作12个小时——简直疯了。► see thesaurus at stupid2 crazy about somebody/something LIKE somebody OR somethingliking someone very much, or very interested in something 对某人/某物着迷 He’s crazy about her. 他对她心醉神迷。 Dan’s crazy about football. 丹对足球十分痴迷。3 angry 生气的ANGRYANNOY angry or annoyed 生气的；恼火的 Turn that music down. It’s driving me crazy! (=really annoying me) 把那音乐调低些，快把我逼疯了！ Dad will go crazy when he hears about this. 爸爸要是知道了这件事会气疯的。4 like crazy FAST/QUICKWORK HARDvery much or very quickly 拼命地；极快地 We’re going to have to work like crazy to get this finished on time. 为了按时完成工作，我们得拼命干。5 go crazy to do something too much, in a way that is not usual or sensible, especially because you are excited 〔尤指因激动而〕发疯，失去理智 Don’t go crazy and spend it all at once. 别发疯一次就花光。6 ILLMPMENTALLY ILLmentally ill 精神失常的，精神错乱的 mentally ill 精神不正常的 SYN mad I feel so alone, sometimes I wonder if I’m going crazy. 我觉得非常孤单，有时候我怀疑自己是否快要发疯了。 —crazily adverb —craziness noun [uncountable]n THESAURUScrazy very strange or not sensible – used about people, ideas, and behaviourPeople think I’m crazy when I start talking about ghosts.It was a crazy thing to do.mad British English crazyAre you mad?Whose mad idea was that?At first, everyone thought he was completely mad.nuts informal (also bonkers British English) [not before noun] crazyThe whole thing sounds completely nuts.Have you gone bonkers? loony informal crazyanother loony suggestionThe man is totally loony.insane completely crazyI know it sounds insane, but it’s true. → see also mentally illn GrammarCrazy is not used with ‘very’. You say: You’d be absolutely crazy to agree. ✗Don’t say: You’d be very crazy to agree.
Examples from the Corpus
crazy• The farmers get more money from the government if they don't plant crops, and I think that's just crazy.• You agreed to marry him? Are you crazy?• Carmen told Murray, and Murray went crazy.• Anybody who thinks they're a good team is crazy.• I said I enjoyed doing exams, and she looked at me as if I was crazy!• Put that gun down! Are you totally crazy?• They probably thought I was crazy all along.• Don Jose had gone crazy and been unable to finish this colossal project.• Being wild, crazy and self-empowered became a theme of the group.• I know I went crazy at first but I got better.• Sounds a little crazy, but it was quite a relief at the time to be able to switch my miseries around.• crazy drivers who cause accidents• Whose crazy idea was it to go camping in January?• The farmers can make more money by not planting crops - it's crazy, isn't it?• We're all grown up, but we still act like a couple of crazy kids.• The biggest influence, believe it or not, was the Weatherman and crazy left-wing guerrilla spirit of the time.• He spends most of the day in his room writing letters - crazy, mad letters no one understands.• Ian's got some crazy plan to drive all the way across Africa.• You see drivers do some crazy things.• It's crazy to have an expensive, elaborate judicial system handling parking tickets and minor traffic violations.• My dad told me I was crazy to leave my job.• You're crazy to lend him all that money - you'll never get it back.• You're crazy to think of hitch-hiking on your own.• His friends thought he was crazy when he told them he was going to spend his entire vacation exploring a cave.crazy idea• That very, very crazy idea.• The Father General and the asteroid and the plane and all these people working on this crazy idea.• It was a crazy idea, but it was all he had at the moment.• If a bold conjecture is falsified, then all that is learnt is that yet another crazy idea has been proved wrong.• Maybe she should postpone the whole crazy idea - or better still, drop it altogether.• What a crazy idea, picnicking up a mountain at this time of year.driving ... crazy• And it seemed he was intent on driving her crazy.• It must be driving you crazy.• One particular bird was driving me crazy.• Something was needed to solve all the interface, translation, transformation, and interpretation problems that were driving application developers crazy.• When I came home, I was driving my parents crazy.• Getting through this evening would be hard enough in itself without driving herself crazy over deciding what to wear.• Am I trying to tell you I believe this stuff was driving the machine crazy too?• You're driving me crazy with wanting.going crazy• I wondered if I was going crazy.• Nobody else suspected that he was going crazy.• You wonder if you are going crazy.• The world was going crazy and, or so it seemed, Trumptonshire would have none of it.• At work we were going crazy dealing with Christmas orders.• The computer screen was still going crazy in front of them, but after a while it slowed down.• They were going crazy, just like Buff.• People said Bob Haddad was going crazy trying to please her.crazy2 noun (plural crazies) [countable] especially American English informal CRAZYsomeone who is crazy 疯子Examples from the Corpus
crazy• Their tactics smear environmentalists as extremist crazies.• So is this really a new panacea or a just a passing craze for crazies.• And every day more crazies who debate With phantom enemies on the street.• Their characters tend to be losers or crazies.• I wanted to encourage street crazies and the like to come and work for us.cra·zy1 adjective →n GRAMMAR1 →n THESAURUS1crazy2 nounLDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable
sensible strange not or Corpus very
crazy
cra‧zy1 S2 /ˈkreɪzi/ 
adjective (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)
1. STRANGE very strange or not sensible
SYN mad:
The neighbours must think we’re crazy.
It’s an absolutely crazy idea.
I know this idea sounds crazy, but it may be worth a try.
crazy to do something
It’d be crazy to go out in this rain.
I must have been crazy to agree to this.
He often works 12 hours a day – it’s crazy.
2. crazy about somebody/something liking someone very much, or very interested in something:
He’s crazy about her.
Dan’s crazy about football.
3. ANGRY angry or annoyed:
Turn that music down. It’s driving me crazy (=really annoying me)!
Dad will go crazy when he hears about this.
4. like crazy very much or very quickly:
We’re going to have to work like crazy to get this finished on time.
5. go crazy to do something too much, in a way that is not usual or sensible, especially because you are excited:
Don’t go crazy and spend it all at once.
6. MENTALLY ILL mentally ill
SYN mad:
I feel so alone, sometimes I wonder if I’m going crazy.
—crazily adverb
—craziness noun [uncountable]
▪ crazy very strange or not sensible – used about people, ideas, and behaviour: People think I’m crazy when I start talking about ghosts. | It was a crazy thing to do.
▪mad British English crazy: Are you mad? | Whose mad idea was that? | At first, everyone thought he was completely mad.
▪nuts informal (also bonkers British English) [not before noun] crazy: The whole thing sounds completely nuts. | Have you gone bonkers?
▪loony informal crazy: another loony suggestion | The man is totally loony.
▪insane completely crazy: I know it sounds insane, but it’s true.
⇨ mentally ill
crazy2 noun (plural crazies) [countable] especially American English informal
someone who is crazy
| I |
adjective (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)1. STRANGE very strange or not sensible
SYN mad:
crazy to do something
2. crazy about somebody/something liking someone very much, or very interested in something:
3. ANGRY angry or annoyed:
4. like crazy very much or very quickly:
5. go crazy to do something too much, in a way that is not usual or sensible, especially because you are excited:
6. MENTALLY ILL mentally ill
SYN mad:
—crazily adverb
—craziness noun [uncountable]
| THESAURUS |
▪
▪
▪
▪
⇨ mentally ill
| II |
noun (plural crazies) [countable] especially American English informalsomeone who is crazy
mad ( having a mind that does not work normallyespecially
BrE 指疯的、神经错乱的、有精神病的 ：◆ I thought I'd go mad if I stayed any longer. 我觉得再待久一点我就会发疯。 NOTE Mad is an informal word used to suggest that sb's behaviour is very strange, often because of extreme emotional pressure. It is offensive if used to describe sb suffering from a real mental illness; usementally ill instead.Mad is not usually used in this meaning in North American English; usecrazy instead.* mad 为非正式用语，暗指由于极度的精神压力而行为怪异，用于真正的精神病患者意含冒犯，故用 mentally ill 代之。在美式英语中，通常不用 mad 表示此义，而用 crazy。 crazy ( having a mind that does not work normally指疯的、神经错乱的、有精神病的 ：◆ A crazy old woman rented the upstairs room. 一个疯老太婆租了楼上那个房间。 NOTE Likemad ,crazy is offensive if used to describe sb suffering from a real mental illness.与 mad 一样，crazy 用于真正的精神病患者具冒犯意。 nuts [ ( mad指发疯、神经错乱 ：◆ That noise is driving me nuts! 那噪音吵得我要疯了！ ◆ You guys are nuts! 你们这些家伙全疯了！ batty ( slightly mad, in a harmless wayespecially
BrE 指疯疯癫癫的、古怪的 ：◆ Her mum's completely batty. 她妈妈完全是疯疯癫癫的。 out of your mind ( unable to think or behave normally, especially because of extreme shock or anxiety尤指因极度震惊或焦虑而心智失常、发疯 ：◆ She was out of her mind with grief. 她悲痛得精神失常了。 (not) in your right mind ( (not) mentally normal指精神（不）正常 ：◆ No one in their right mind would choose to work there.任何一个精神正常的人都不会选择去那里工作。
Patterns
to be mad/crazy/nuts/out of your mind/not in your right mind to do sth to go mad/crazy/nuts/battyto drive sb mad/crazy/nuts/batty/out of their mindcompletely mad/crazy/nuts/batty/out of your mind
