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amok adv.疯狂地adj.杀人狂的n.杀人狂 (1) 老虎逃出了动物园，张牙舞爪乱窜了几小时。 Most of our words are rooted in Greek, Latin, or German, so it's refreshing to see a word that arose in a whole different language: amok's origins are in the Malay language of Indonesia. In the 1500s, a Portuguese writer and explorer named Duarte Barbosa described a murderous tribe on the island of Java as the "Amuco," and the word passed on into English. Amuco came from Amuk, a Malay word meaning "attacking furiously."

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英 [ə'mɒk] 美 [ə'mɑːk] (1) The tiger escaped from the zoo and ran amok for hours. You think Mittens the kitten is gentle and sweet, and then one day she runs amok, ripping up Grandma's favorite armchair until its cottony guts are hanging out. Time to take Mittens to get its claws clipped. 1[PHRASE 短语]（人或动物）发狂，狂暴，疯狂 If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.   [V inflects]A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin.一名士兵在疯狂飙车穿越柏林后被逮捕。

英语单词	amok
英美音标	英 [ə'mɒk] 美 [ə'mɑːk]
中文释义	adv.疯狂地 adj.杀人狂的 n.杀人狂
英语例句	(1) The tiger escaped from the zoo and ran amok for hours.
中文例句	(1) 老虎逃出了动物园，张牙舞爪乱窜了几小时。
vocabulary简明	You think Mittens the kitten is gentle and sweet, and then one day she runs amok, ripping up Grandma's favorite armchair until its cottony guts are hanging out. Time to take Mittens to get its claws clipped.
vocabulary扩展	Most of our words are rooted in Greek, Latin, or German, so it's refreshing to see a word that arose in a whole different language: amok's origins are in the Malay language of Indonesia. In the 1500s, a Portuguese writer and explorer named Duarte Barbosa described a murderous tribe on the island of Java as the "Amuco," and the word passed on into English. Amuco came from Amuk, a Malay word meaning "attacking furiously."
柯林斯解释	1 [PHRASE 短语]（人或动物）发狂，狂暴，疯狂 If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way. [V inflects] A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin. 一名士兵在疯狂飙车穿越柏林后被逮捕。

Amok Word Mittens Runs Malay 英 ə'Mɒk] 美 ə'Mɑːk