folie

1 In psychiatry there is a condition known as folie à deux, which describes how two people share a psychosis.

2 It is what a French friend of mine called la folie des obus.

3 The transmission of mental symptoms has been given different names: induced delusional disorder, shared psychosis, folie à deux, trois, quatre,…, or millions—depending on the number affected—or mass hysteria when affecting a whole population.

4 When the restlessness of Louis XV could no longer find moorings in this brilliancy, there came into being little houses called folies, garden hermitages for the privileged.

5 Imagine what would be the impression if some day a sovereign went on the stage of the folies Bergères as a "number" for a sleight-of-hand performance!

6 But Struthers, who is not untouched with her folie de grandeur, has the slightly flurried satisfaction of an exile who has at last come into her own.

7 Whenever he gets very much disturbed over business matters, as is likely to happen in panic times, he develops a very striking folie du doute, or doubting mania.

8 Gradually, a tale told to gain readmittance to the marriage bed becomes a folie à deux, as the couple plot to row out to Rungholt when it rises from the sea and “rescue” their children.

9 On a fait des folies pour moi, and here I am, a poor rheumatic creature, with a false front and a bad temper. 

10 He discovered a peculiar kind of scarlet dyestuff, and he expended so much money on his establishment that it was named by the common people la folie Gobelin.

11 In the windy month of March a sudden gloom falls upon Madrid,—the reaction after the folie gaiete of the Carnival.

12 What more convincing folie à deux can there be than making a world together out of nothing — just some scratchy drawings on a wall?

13 And, you know, I don’t want to give him up, because he has thirty thousand francs and he loves me � la folie.

14 C'est folie," she cried hoarsely, "have I not told you that we are in great danger?

15 Still, Big and Little Edie are not so far gone in their folie à deux that they are unaware of the Maysles brothers’ presence, and they even interact with the filmmakers at times.

16 How is the recognition of shared psychosis, or folie à groupe, helpful?

17 Of this inner wisdom, this quietness of thought, this "folie des grandeurs" of the soul, he had a thousand times as much as Macaulay.

18 Ballet enumerates a number of works upon so-called folie brightique which tend to prove that acute or chronic Bright's disease gives rise either to melancholic disorder or alternately to maniacal and melancholic disorder.

19 His father was a small vinegrower and cultivator, who had been rather disgusted by the fugues of his eldest son, but who was now resigned to the latter's étranges folies.

20 From a worldly point of view, this engagement was what is called in French une folie, on my part, and hardly less so on the part of the young lady.

1 精神异常

stir-crazy psychosis non compos non compos mentis

2 精神病

mental psychotic psycho insanity psychosis psychopathy

3 精神错乱

mad distract frantic unbalanced lunatic daft gonzo moonstruck crack-brained madness insanity brainstorm alienation lunacy amentia phrenitis delir unbalance off onion get the crackers