imbecile
英 ['ɪmbɪsiːl]
美 ['ɪmbɪsaɪl]
- n. 低能者；愚蠢的人
- adj. 低能的；愚笨的；虚弱的
助记提示
1. Etymologically imbecile means 'without support, unsupported', hence 'weak'.
2. Anyone or anything without a stick or staff for support is by extension weak, and so it came to mean 'weak, feeble'.
3. in- "not, opposite of" + baculum "a stick" (see bacillus, bacteria).
双语例句
- 1. It was an imbecile thing to do.
- 这么做很愚蠢。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. For two years that imbecile threw his money away like this.
- 两年来那个傻瓜就像这样挥霍钱财.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. Did you ever see anything so imbecile as her mother?
- 象她母亲那样无用的人,你说少见不少见?
来自辞典例句
- 4. He was an imbecile to sign a contract with them.
- 他跟他们签合同,真是愚不可及.
来自辞典例句
- 5. I've very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit.
- 我 倒 想狠狠地摇撼你, 就因为你的可鄙的奸诈, 和你那低能的奇想.
来自辞典例句
