insane asylum

基本解釋

A man is walking by an insane asylum and hears all the
一個(gè)人路過瘋?cè)嗽?，聽見里面的病人正在一起高喊，“十三?十三！”
Of course, the only commitment that may result is to an insane asylum .
當(dāng)然，唯一的承諾，可能的結(jié)果是，瘋狂的庇護(hù)。
He never got to enjoy the fruit of his labor because they had to put him away in 1913 and he spent seventeen years in the state insane asylum believing he was a child and it was actually May 3, 1872.
所以最終，他非但沒能嘗到自己預(yù)言成功的甜頭，反而是在1913年被人送進(jìn)了州立瘋?cè)嗽?，并在那里度過了余生的十七年。在這十七年里，他一直覺得自己是個(gè)小孩，并且堅(jiān)信每一天都是1872年5月3日。

So imagine that there's right now somebody in an insane asylum in Michigan who's got the thought,I am Napoleon.
因此想像一下，現(xiàn)在有個(gè)家伙,在密西根一家精神病院，認(rèn)為自己就是拿破侖。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

Then the mayor flew to Wall Street, which he boasted he would so impress with his forceful ideas that it would upgrade Miami's bond-rating from junk status. (It listened politely but remained unmoved.) It was then that a columnist, Carl Hiaasen, advised the mayor in the Miami Herald that, while in New York, he should visit Bellevue, an insane asylum of legend.
ECONOMIST: Miami politics