lunatic asylum

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The court committed her to a lunatic asylum.
法院把她送進精神病院。
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A patient in a lunatic asylum is fishing in a dry pond when a nurse passing by tries to tease him.
瘋?cè)嗽貉e有一個精神病患者守著一個乾涸了的池塘在釣魚。一個護士從旁邊經(jīng)過，看到這一幕覺得很好笑，便走上去逗弄他。
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At the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, London, in 1873, a young physician who suspected so surgically removed small portions of the brain from two living monkeys.
年，在倫敦西賴丁瘋?cè)嗽海╓est Riding Lunatic Asylum），一位對此心存懷疑的年輕內(nèi)科毉生用外科手術(shù)的方式取出兩衹活猴的一小部分大腦組織。

The security lights had been triggered and through the railings they had watched Manning roaming about, from time to time peering in at the downstairs windows of the lumpy red brick building that was said to have been a lunatic asylum once.
NEWYORKER: Bravado
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal, sent with his partner (Mark Ruffalo) to seek a missing person who has escaped from the Ashecliffe lunatic asylum—not that there is much to escape to, since the asylum is on Shutter Island, miles from civilization in Boston Harbor.
NEWYORKER: Shutter Island

A lunatic asylum was a place where mentally disturbed people used to be locked up.