Fool
[fuːl] or [ful]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
(n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
(n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
(n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
(n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
(v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
(v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.
(v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
乔整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Dolt, witling, driveller, idiot, simpleton, ninny, nincompoop, blockhead, DUNCE.[2]. Buffoon, harlequin, droll, punch, antic, jester, zany, clown, mountebank, merry Andrew, scaramouch, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.
v. n. Trifle, toy, play, play the fool, play the monkey, act like a fool.
v. a. Deceive, cheat, trick, dupe, gull, delude, circumvent, cozen, overreach, beguile, hoodwink, chouse, cully, impose upon.
康斯坦丁校對
解釋/意思:
n. crushed fruit scalded or stewed mixed with cream and sugar as 'gooseberry fool.'
n. one who acts stupidly: a person of weak mind: a jester: a tool or victim as of untoward circumstances: (B.) a wicked person.—v.t. to deceive: to treat with contempt.—v.i. to play the fool: to trifle.—adjs. Fool′-begged (Shak.) taken for a fool idiotical absurd; Fool′-born (Shak.) foolish from one's birth arising from folly.—n. Fool′ery an act of folly: habitual folly.—adj. Fool′-happ′y happy or lucky without contrivance or judgment.—n. Fool′-hard′iness—(Spens.) Fool′-hard′ise.—adjs. Fool′-hard′y foolishly bold: rash or incautious; Fool′ish weak in intellect: wanting discretion: ridiculous: marked with folly: deserving ridicule: (B.) sinful disregarding God's laws.—adv. Fool′ishly.—ns. Fool′ishness Fool′ing foolery.—adj. Fool′ish-wit′ty (Shak.) wise in folly and foolish in wisdom.—ns. Fool's′-err′and a silly or fruitless enterprise: search for what cannot be found; Fool's′-pars′ley an umbelliferous plant in Britain not to be mistaken for parsley being poisonous.—Fool away to spend to no purpose or profit; Fool's cap a kind of head-dress worn by professional fools or jesters usually having a cockscomb hood with bells; Fool's paradise a state of happiness based on fictitious hopes or expectations; Fool with to meddle with officiously; Make a fool of to bring a person into ridicule: to disappoint; Play the fool to behave as a fool: to sport.
整理:塔尼娅
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific omniform omnipercipient omniscient omnipotent. He it was who invented letters printing the railroad the steamboat the telegraph the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war—founded theology philosophy law medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting—such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
杰西卡校對
例句/造句/用法:
- To-morrow, loveliest and best, hope and joy of my life, to-morrow I will see thee--Fool, to dream of a moment's delay! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Be dazed if I should like a relation of mine to have been made such a fool of by a man. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I know better, Fred Beauclerc would answer, and yet I am fool enough to love a woman who is going mad for another man. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Like a fool I left my baccy-pouch upon the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Says Compeyson: 'Why, you fool, don't you know she's got a living body? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- How the deuce, my dear, would you have me behave respectfully to such a fool as your brother? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We are such fools, we can't entertain each other at table. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We are neither hypocrites or fools --for the rest, 'Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- No, she was the best-behaved patient they had--and, like fools, they trusted her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But they are still fools. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- This from me may appear to strangers like personal pique, but all who know me will acquit me of having ever, in my life, coveted the society of fools. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mr. Helstone opined that they were like other fools who had just paired--insensible to inconvenience just for the moment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- His head was not strong: the knaves he lived amongst fooled him beyond anything I ever heard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- If I renounce my Order, for thee alone will I renounce it--Ambition shall remain mine, if thou refuse my love; I will not be fooled on all hands. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Such genuine powers do not absorb our political interest because we are fooled by the regalia of office. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I don't want my leg fooled with by a first captain. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- This brought the corporal along the half mile, only to find that he was fooled. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Ah--you'll borrow from Selden or Rosedale--and take your chances of fooling them as you've fooled me! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I don't care how you settled your score with them--if you fooled 'em I'm that much to the good. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Play then changes to fooling and if habitually indulged in is demoralizing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Now let's be off, and have no more fooling. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Ah--you'll borrow from Selden or Rosedale--and take your chances of fooling them as you've fooled me! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
校對:莫蒂默