Blind
[blaɪnd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; 'they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet'.
(noun.) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); 'he waited impatiently in the blind'.
(noun.) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; 'he spent hours reading to the blind'.
(verb.) make dim by comparison or conceal.
(verb.) make blind by putting the eyes out; 'The criminals were punished and blinded'.
(verb.) render unable to see.
(adj.) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; 'blind to a lover's faults'; 'blind to the consequences of their actions' .
(adj.) not based on reason or evidence; 'blind hatred'; 'blind faith'; 'unreasoning panic' .
(adj.) unable to see; 'a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision'--Kenneth Jernigan .
編輯:汤姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
(a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
(a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
(a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
(a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
(a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
(a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
(n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
(n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
(n.) A halting place.
(n.) Alt. of Blinde
編輯:桑德拉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Sightless, eyeless, unseeing, stone-blind, stark-blind, unable to see.[2]. Ignorant, undiscerning, unaware, unmindful, inattentive, heedless, incapable of judging.
v. a. [1]. Make blind, deprive of sight.[2]. Hoodwink, blindfold.
n. Screen, cover.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant, prejudiced,uninformed, unconscious, unaware
ANT:Farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating, clearsighted,pure-minded, aware, conscious
整理:凯瑟琳
解釋/意思:
adj. without sight: dark: ignorant or undiscerning: without an opening.—n. something to mislead: a window-screen: a shade.—v.t. to make blind; to darken obscure or deceive; to dazzle.—pa.p. blīnd′ed; pr.p. blīnd′ing.—ns. Blind′age (mil.) a temporary wooden screen faced with earth as a protection against splinters of shell and the like; Blind′-coal non-bituminous coal.—adj. Blind′ed deprived of sight: without intellectual discernment.—n. Blind′er one who or that which blinds; (pl.) a horse's blinkers.—adj. Blind′fold having the eyes bandaged so as not to see: thoughtless: reckless.—v.t. to cover the eyes: to mislead.—adj. Blind′ing tending to make blind.—pr.p. making blind.—adv. Blind′ly.—ns. Blind′ness want of sight ignorance folly; Blind′-side the side on which a person is blind to danger: weak point; Blind′worm a small reptile like a snake having eyes so small as to be supposed blind.—Blind-man's buff a game in which one of the party is blindfolded and tries to catch the others.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence to almost abject poverty. To see others blind, denotes that some worthy person will call on you for aid.
校對:谢尔比
例句/造句/用法:
- I suppose it's smarter to use these rocks and build a good blind for this gun than to make a proper emplacement for it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It was a good blind, eh? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Then Becquerel was next visited, but he was nearly blind and could see nothing in the new optical toy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He is now helpless, indeed--blind and a cripple. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Because I saw it only looking out from under the blinds of a window in the house which stood on the corner where the arc light was. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The blinds were all drawn down, and the inscription Pubsey and Co. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Holmes stepped up to the window, closed it, and dropped the blinds. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But he suffered Mr Casby to go out, without offering any further remark, and then took a peep at him over the little green window-blinds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But, he, Pablo, blinded the _guardia civil_ who was wounded, the gypsy insisted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice? 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When Mr. Thornton had left the house that morning he was almost blinded by his baffled passion. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- With great indignation did he continue to observe him; with great alarm and distrust, to observe also his two blinded companions. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- We have told our story of Europe; the reader may judge whether the glitter of the German sword is exceptionally blinding. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He stared at her, groping in a blackness through which a single arrow of light tore its blinding way. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Edison's great effort--not to make a large light or a blinding light, but a small light having the mildness of gas. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- No, sir, returned Mrs. Blinder, he was nothing but a follerers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Really, sir, I think she might, said Mrs. Blinder, getting her heavy breath by painful degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Chandler's shop, left hand side, name of Blinder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There she was, doing all this in a quiet motherly manner as if she were living in Mrs. Blinder's attic with Tom and Emma again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Upon the whole, not so bad, sir, said Mrs. Blinder; but certainly not so many as would have been if their father's calling had been different. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Blinder is entirely let, and she herself occupies poor Gridley's room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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