present participle adjective from obsolete verb mad "to make insane; to become insane" (see madden); now principally in the phrase far from the madding crowd, title of a novel by Hardy (1874), who lifted it from a line of Gray's "Elegy" (1749), which seems to echo a line from Drummond of Hawthornden from 1614 ("Farre from the madding Worldling's hoarse discords").
雙語例句
1. I really enjoyed Far from the Madding Crowd.
我真喜歡《遠(yuǎn)離狂亂的人群》.
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2. Usage and Characters: Our machine is the ideal equipment for the printing . paper - madding and decoration enterprise.