英语单词 | silly |
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英美音标 | 英 ['sɪli] 美 ['sɪli] |
中文释义 | adj.愚蠢的;琐屑的;可笑的;犯晕的 n.(通常指小孩子)淘气鬼;傻孩子 |
英语例句 | (1) The silly ending robs the plot of any credibility. (2) Don't get upset over silly things that people say. (3) I look pretty silly in this dress. (4) I took a swing at him and knocked him silly. (5) He is not a silly boy,not by a jugful. (6) No, silly, those aren't your shoes! |
中文例句 | (1) 这愚蠢的结尾使得整个情节变得一点都不可信。 (2) 不要在意人们的闲言碎语。 (3) 我穿这条裙看上去很可笑。 (4) 我挥拳打了他一下, 把他打得晕头转向。 (5) 他不是一个傻孩子。 (6) 不对,傻孩子,那不是你的鞋! |
vocabulary简明 | Silly describes something that can't be taken seriously. You might not mind telling silly jokes, but you don't want to be told a project you've worked hard at is silly. |
vocabulary扩展 | Silly originally meant “happy,” which gives the sense of children's games or harmless jokes. Later, it came to mean “foolish”: silly ideas are looked down on because they're not very smart. Silly can also mean a state of foolishness brought on in a specific way. Your mother “worried herself silly” when you stayed out late, and promised to “slap you silly” when you got home. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]愚蠢的;幼稚的;荒唐的 If you say that someone or something is silly, you mean that they are foolish, childish, or ridiculous.
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2 [ADJ 形容词](喝得)昏头昏脑的;(笑得)傻里傻气的 If you do something such as laugh or drink yourself silly, you do it so much that you are unable to think or behave sensibly. [v n ADJ] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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