take leave of one's senses

释义

1. 发疯，失去理智

   idiomatic

   Have you taken leave of your senses?

   你疯了吗？

   Here I am, with my book and my pencil—the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?

   我帶著書和鉛筆在這裡——後者並不像我希望的那樣削得那麼尖，但是當基督徒都失去理智時，誰還能指望鉛筆能保持尖銳呢？

   1868 January 4 – June 6，[William] Wilkie Collins，「Second Period. The Discovery of the Truth. (1848–1849.) […] [Fourth Narrative. Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings.]」，收錄於The Moonstone. A Romance. […]，第III卷，London：Tinsley Brothers, […]，1868 出版，→OCLC，180–181頁：

   She plainly said that men seemed to take leave of their senses as soon as women were concerned; […]

   她直言不諱地說，只要一牽扯到女人，男人似乎就會失去理智； […]

   1880，[Henry Brooks Adams]，第X章，收錄於Democracy: An American Novel（Leisure-hour Series；no. 112），New York, N.Y.：Henry Holt and Company，→OCLC，256頁：

   Rachel Spencer, have you taken leave of your senses? What do you mean by such nonsense as this?

   瑞秋·斯賓塞，妳是發瘋了嗎？妳說這些胡言亂語是什麼意思？

   1920 March，L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery，「Her Father’s Daughter」，收錄於Further Chronicles of Avonlea，Boston, Mass.：The Page Company，→OCLC，43頁：

   Sue Shellenbarger was 49, living in Oregon and writing her "Work & Family" column for the Wall Street Journal, when in the space of two years she got divorced, lost her father, drained her bank account and developed a taste for wilderness camping and ATV riding that left her crumpled up on an emergency-room gurney. "People around me thought I'd taken leave of my senses," she says.

   蘇·謝倫伯格49歲時住在俄勒岡州，為《華爾街日報》撰寫「工作與家庭」專欄。在兩年內，她經歷了離婚、喪父、耗盡銀行存款，還迷上了野外露營和騎乘全地形車，最後甚至因此受重傷躺在急診室的擔架上。「身邊的人都以為我瘋了，」她說。

   2005年 5月8日，Nancy Gibbs，「Midlife Crisis? Bring It On!」，收錄於Time：

   One of the great difficulties associated with the adoption of organic or, perhaps more appropriately, sustainable principles at the time I started turned out to be convincing others that you had not taken complete leave of your senses.

   在我剛開始採用有機（或者更恰當地說，永續）原則時，面臨的巨大困難之一竟然是說服別人你並沒有徹底發瘋。

   2007，HRH The Prince of Wales，The Elements of Organic Gardening，Kales Press，第7頁：

   It seems to me that whoever at the Department of Transport or the train operating companies, or both, is specifying the standard of seats these days has taken leave of their senses and opted for cheapness over comfort.

   在我看來，無論是交通部還是列車營運公司（或者兩者皆是），如今制定座椅標準的人顯然已經失去理智，選擇了廉價而非舒適。

   2023年 7月26日，Pip Dunn，「Merseyrail '777s' are OK for passengers」，收錄於RAIL，988期，60頁：