Imbecile
['ɪmbɪsiːl] or ['ɪmbɪsaɪl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.
(n.) One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.
(v. t.) To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
埃利斯手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Weak, feeble, infirm, helpless, decrepit.[2]. Foolish, witless, drivelling, idiotic, fatuous.
n. Dotard, feeble person.
卡斯特罗校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Foolish, idiotic, fatuous
ANT:Shrewd, sagacious, clever
德洛丽丝校對
解釋/意思:
adj. without strength either of body or mind: feeble: fatuous.—n. one destitute of strength either of mind or body.—n. Imbecil′ity state of being imbecile: weakness of body or mind.
校對:罗杰
例句/造句/用法:
- He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- That I caught a view of myself in a mirror, looking perfectly imbecile and idiotic. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If I was once to sit down under it, I should become imbecile. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Woman imbecile and pig-like! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- King George was far away in England, and sinking slowly towards an imbecile condition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I tell them that if I did restrain myself I should become imbecile. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- However innocent he might be, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the circumstances were very black against him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- How dare you, she would ask herself--how dare you show your weakness and betray your imbecile anxieties? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Halliday hung motionless, an almost imbecile smile flickering palely on his face. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her husband developed some hateful qualities; or shall we say that he contracted some loathsome disease, and became a leper or an imbecile? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- You, imbeciles, where the lights are yonder, eating and drinking, and warming yourselves at fires! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A hospital for imbeciles! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
校對:贾斯廷