英语单词 | moron |
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英美音标 | 英 ['mɔːrɒn] 美 ['mɔːrɑːn] |
中文释义 | n.笨人 |
英语例句 | (1) They're a load of morons. |
中文例句 | (1) 他们是一群笨蛋。 |
vocabulary简明 | When your little brother does something that is both stupid and infuriating, you'll have to bite your tongue to keep from calling him a moron. A moron is an unkind way to describe someone who is foolish and unintelligent. |
vocabulary扩展 | The word moron was an official term in the early 1900s, used to describe a person of low intelligence — specifically, an "adult with a mental age between eight and twelve." It became a popular insult in the 1920s, and gradually stopped being used as a medical term, until moron was only an informal way to put someone down. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]白痴;低能儿;傻子 If you refer to someone as a moron, you think that they are very stupid. [disapproval] [OFFENSIVE 冒犯]
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