dullard

參見：Dullard

英语

词源

源自中古英語 dullard、dollard，等价于dull +‎ -ard (贬义色彩施动后缀)。对比法羅語 døll (“笨蛋，蠢货”)、新挪威語 døl (“笨蛋”)。

发音

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈdʌlɚd/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈdʌləd/

• 音頻 (英国南部)：

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• 斷字：dul‧lard

名词

dullard (複數 dullards)

1. 傻子，笨蛋

   近義詞：參見Thesaurus:fool

   • 1880，William Blades，The Enemies of Books，第 41 頁：

     Oh! Richard of Bury, I sighed, for a sharp stone from your sling to pierce with indignant sarcasm the mental armour of these college dullards.

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   • 1995，Temple Grandin，Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism，Vintage Books，出版於 2006，第 211 頁：

     Whereas some prodigies develop at an early age, Einstein did not exhibit any great genius as a young child. Some people thought he was a dullard.

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   • 2008–2021，qntm，“We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”，There Is No Antimemetics Division，→ISBN，第 9 頁：

     Marion has long since stopped listening. "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief of Antimemetics."

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   • 2022年8月9日，Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd，“Private School” (片头起3:30)，What We Do in the Shadows‎^[1]，第 4 季数，第 5 集数，spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou)：

     “Okay. What if we send him to a very selective private school so he doesn't have to worry about rubbing shoulders with street tramps and dullards?” “No. We have plenty of good public schools here, and they're free.” “I thought you were doing the accounting. Isn't the nightclub swimming in the trillions?” “No, we need that money to fix the house. And I wouldn't say "trillions." No, definitely not.”

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衍生词汇

• dullardism
• dullardly
• dullardness
• dullardry

延伸阅读

• “dullard”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.