half-wit如何读

英:['hɑ:fwɪt]

美:[ˈhæfˌwɪt, ˈhɑf-]

half-wit是什么意思

  • n.愚蠢低能的人;笨蛋;傻瓜

half-wit扩展

half-witted (adj.), half-wittedly (adv.), half-wittedness (n.)

half-wit英英释义

Noun

1. a person of subnormal intelligence

2. a stupid incompetent person

half-wit词源中文解释

"simpleton"(一个缺乏所有智慧的人),1755年,来自 half + wit(名词)。早期指“一个想要成为机智的人,但能力平庸”(1670年代)。

Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light,
We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.
[Dryden, "All for Love"]
半疯子就像跳蚤一样,又小又轻,
我们几乎不知道它们存在,除非它们咬人。
[德莱顿,《为爱而生》]

短语 out of half wit “有点疯狂”在中古英语(14世纪晚期)中出现。Half-witted “缺乏常识”来自1640年代。

half-wit词源英文解释

The first known use of half-wit was in 1607

half-wit儿童词典英英释义

half-witnoun

a foolish or unintelligent person

half-wit 例句

1 some half-wit had left the gate open, and all the sheep had gotten loose

2 even a half-wit knows that ice cream melts if it's not in the freezer

3 Aerial mishaps and half-wit actors turn a fantasy classic into a farce.

4 Beau’s brother, Peanut (Kevin Cahoon), a fraction of a half-wit, fires off bullet lists of random jokes for no apparent reason.

5 I can see with half an eye that John is a foolishman.

我一看就知道约翰是个笨蛋。

6 It has come down to us as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which is still in print and is arguably the skeptic classic of the past half a century.

他认为自己的同行尽是些无知的笨蛋,而且毫无例外。

7 You half - wit, I asked for pepper, not paper.

你这个笨蛋, 我是要胡椒, 不是要纸.

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