英:['rætlˌbreɪnd]
美:['rætəlˌbreɪnd]
英:['rætlˌbreɪnd]
美:['rætəlˌbreɪnd]
词根:rattled
adj.rattled 慌乱的;愚蠢的;恼火的
rattlepated 愚蠢多嘴的;头脑空虚的
v.rattled 发出咯咯声(rattle的过去式)
Adjective
1. lacking sense or discretion;
"his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"
"how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott
The first known use of rattlebrain was in 1704
1 She was a rattlebrained fool who would undoubtedly giggle and take it as a great joke when the Cauldron-Born came for him.
2 Why, Jack, Jack, what a thoughtless, rattlebrained chap you are.
3 Through a rattlebrained friend of theirs, one Nancy Spencer, they agree to take a boy from the Hopeton Orphanage.
4 A rattlebrained imp with a horse between her knees from daylight to dark, riding the country wild, insulting old age, and laughing at me and putting the devil into the head of my grandson!
5 But I am afraid you are glorifying two rattlebrained chaps who should be in a home for imbeciles instead of in the castle their audacity might have blighted.
6 in a medical situation of this seriousness we don't need some rattlebrain running around in a panic
1 愚蠢的
gullish thick-brained soft-witted unideaed fat-witted simple thick stupid mad fool silly dumb nonsense absurd vacant foolish dizzy childish goofy mindless jerky frivolous unwise nonsensical cuckoo inept balmy crass ill-advised inane moronic half-baked sappy brutish imbecile spastic brainless light-headed brain-dead witless dotty fatuous dippy lumpish imbecilic klutzy pointy-headed gormless dopey doltish footling dimwitted sottish featherbrained fuzzy-headed crackbrained feebleminded cockamamie thickheaded soft-headed anserine gawkish tomfool pinheaded shallow-minded wooden-headed stockish featherheaded birdbrained puddingheaded
2 愚蠢
gullish thick-brained soft-witted unideaed fat-witted simple thick stupid mad fool silly dumb nonsense absurd vacant foolish dizzy childish goofy mindless jerky frivolous unwise nonsensical cuckoo inept balmy crass ill-advised inane moronic half-baked sappy brutish imbecile spastic brainless light-headed brain-dead witless dotty fatuous dippy lumpish imbecilic klutzy pointy-headed gormless dopey doltish footling dimwitted sottish featherbrained fuzzy-headed crackbrained feebleminded cockamamie thickheaded soft-headed anserine gawkish tomfool pinheaded shallow-minded wooden-headed stockish featherheaded birdbrained puddingheaded stockishly stupidly foolishly unwisely senselessly idiotically fatuously inanely sillily gawkily babyism stockishness meshugaas moronity folly stupidity absurdity silliness ineptitude dumbo inanity imbecility dumbness unwisdom fatuity dulness jackassery moronism boobery