- (especially North American English, informal)
stupid 愚蠢的；傻的；笨的 That was a pretty dumb thing to do. 做那样的事太愚蠢了。 🔊🔊 If the police question you, act dumb (= pretend you do not know anything). 如果警察盘问，你就装傻。 🔊🔊 In her early movies she played a dumb blonde. 在她早期的电影中，她扮演傻乎乎的金发女郎。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1I'm sure my question sounded really dumb. 我确信我的提问听起来很愚蠢。 How could he be so dumb as to do that? 他怎么会这么傻呢？ She's going out with some dumb jock from her high school. 她正和同一中学的某个蠢蛋运动员谈恋爱。 That's the dumbest idea I ever heard. 那是我听过的最愚蠢的想法。 This president is even dumber than his father. 这位总统甚至比他父亲还要愚蠢。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
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- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- (old-fashioned, sometimes offensive)
unable to speak 哑的；不能说话的 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- be struck
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- with
- deaf and dumb
temporarily not speaking or refusing to speak 一时说不出话的；不肯开口的 We were all struck dumb with amazement. 我们都惊讶得说不出话来。 🔊🔊 We sat there in dumb silence. 我们坐在那里，默然无语。 🔊🔊 She stood in the doorway, dumb with rage. 她站在门口，愤怒地呆呆。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- be struck
- …
- with
- deaf and dumb
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse dumbr and Gothic dumbs ‘mute’, also to Dutch dom ‘stupid’ and German dumm ‘stupid’.