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旋元祐Time时代杂志核心短语 动词短语29:run amuck

run amuck

失控,抓狂

amuck/amok是马来语,原来是指人在陷入精神恍惚的 状态下,疯狂地屠杀陌生人。所以run amuck/amok引申为 「失去控制、不可收拾」,往往造成破坏性的结果。

At the moment when democracy and free enterprise have triumphed over communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,the U.S. is paying the price of capitalism run amuck.(出自:TIME, Oct. 14,1991,p. 42)

正当民主政治与自由企业在苏联与东欧战胜共产主义之时,美国 却在为失控的资本主义付出代价。