名词

1. It is insanity to drive a car without any brakes.
驾驶没有煞车的汽车确是愚不可及。

1. 精神错乱：刑事责任能力是和精神错乱(Insanity)或精神病联系在一起的. 约在150年前,精神错乱的含义由精神病学家所描述,并与当时的精神病学水平相适应[22]. 由于麦克劳顿判例的出现,法官们赋予精神错乱以特殊的含义,从此,

2. 精神不正常：精神不正常 insane | 精神不正常 insanity | 精神文明 spiritual civilization

1. 精神错乱;精神失常;疯狂
Insanity is the state of being insane.

e.g. The film is a powerful study of a woman's descent into insanity...
那部电影深入剖析了一个女人堕入疯狂的过程。
e.g. The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.
辩方以精神错乱为由进行申辩,但被告被判有罪并获刑。

2. 极端的愚蠢(行为);荒唐(事)
If you describe a decision or an action as insanity, you think it is very foolish.

e.g. It was a period of collective insanity, of legalized murder and mayhem.
那是个集体丧失理智、谋杀与暴力合法化的时期。
e.g. ...the final financial insanity of the 1980s.
20 世纪 80 年代最后的财政疯狂

noun

1. relatively permanent disorder of the mind