run amok

基本解释

Private risk-taking run amok has plunged the country into its worst recession in decades.
私营企业不顾危险，最终失去控制，导致美国陷入了几十年不遇的经济萧条。
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Mr Cheney’s new memoir, despite its breezy self-justification, does little to dispel that notion, showing exactly how a vice-president can run amok.
而在切尼的新回忆录中，虽颇有几分轻松的自我辩解意味，却几乎没有反驳这一观点。这本回忆录确切的显示了虽身为副总统，切尼却是如何能够胆大包天、胡作非为。
Beyond the downtown high-rises, UB often feels like a frontier town run amok, strewn lengthwise along a river valley like gravel left behind by a flash flood.
在闹市区高楼群之外的乌兰巴托则更像是一座发展失控的边疆城镇。它沿着一条河谷南北延伸，就像暴洪退去后留下的一路碎石。

The concept that stem cells run-amok may fuel cancer's spread was first proposed in the 1960s.
FORBES: Cancer Killer
Too many entrepreneurs, too many VCs--greed run amok.
FORBES: Digital rules
Why should any businessman support a chief executive who has let his friends in the labour movement run amok and who let his health-care bill be written by Democrats in Congress?
ECONOMIST: Barack Obama and the Republicans