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sane

adjective
🔊/seɪn/
🔊/seɪn/
(comparative saner, superlative sanest)
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  1. having a normal healthy mind; not mentally ill精神健全的；神志正常的
    • No sane person would do that.没有一个神志正常的人会做那样的事。🔊🔊
    • Being able to get out of the city at the weekend keeps me sane.要不是能出城过过周末，我简直快憋疯了。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • She seems perfectly sane to me.在我看来，她神志清醒着呢。
    • Having a joke and a laugh helps you stay sane.开个玩笑和笑可以帮助您保持理智。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • remain
    • …
    adverb
    • completely
    • perfectly
    • quite
    • …
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  2. sensible and reasonable明智的；理智的；合乎情理的
    • the sane way to solve the problem解决问题的明智方法
    3. opposite insane see also sanity
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin sanus ‘healthy’.