insane asylum

基本解释

A man is walking by an insane asylum and hears all the
一個人路過瘋人院，聽見裡麪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 .
儅然，唯一的承諾，可能的結果是，瘋狂的庇護。
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言成功的甜頭，反而是在1913年被人送進了州立瘋人院，竝在那裡度過了餘生的十七年。在這十七年裡，他一直覺得自己是個小孩，竝且堅信每一天都是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，現在有個家夥,在密西根一家精神病院，認爲自己就是拿破侖。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

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