imbecile: [16] Etymologically imbecile means ‘without support’, hence ‘weak’. It came via French from Latin imbēcillus, a compound adjective formed from the prefix in- ‘not’ and an unrecorded *bēcillum, a diminutive variant of baculum ‘stick’ (from which English gets bacillus and bacterium). Anyone or anything without a stick or staff for support is by extension weak, and so the Latin adjective came to mean ‘weak, feeble’. This broadened out to ‘weak in mind’, and was even used as a noun for ‘weak-minded person’, but English did not adopt these metaphorical uses until the late 18th century. => bacillus, bacterium
imbecile (adj.)
1540s, imbecille "weak, feeble" (especially in reference to the body), from Middle French imbecile (15c.), from Latin imbecillus "weak, feeble" (see imbecility). Sense shifted to mental weakness from mid-18c. (compare frail, which in provincial English also could mean "mentally weak"). As a noun, "feeble-minded person," it is attested from 1802. Traditionally an adult with a mental age of roughly 6 to 9 (above an idiot but beneath a moron).
imbecile 英文释义
1. a person of subnormal intelligence
imbecile 双语例句
1. It was an imbecile thing to do.
这么做很愚蠢。
来自柯林斯例句
2. For two years that imbecile threw his money away like this.
两年来那个傻瓜就像这样挥霍钱财.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Did you ever see anything so imbecile as her mother?
象她母亲那样无用的人,你说少见不少见?
来自辞典例句
4. He was an imbecile to sign a contract with them.
他跟他们签合同,真是愚不可及.
来自辞典例句
5. I've very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit.
我 倒 想狠狠地摇撼你, 就因为你的可鄙的奸诈, 和你那低能的奇想.
来自辞典例句
imbecile 实用场景例句
They behaved like imbeciles.
他们表现得像傻瓜。
牛津词典
[常用于名词前]imbecile remarks
蠢话
牛津词典
It was an imbecile thing to do.
这么做很愚蠢。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer.
我再也不想和这些笨蛋打交道了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect.
可能是天生缺陷或者通过恐惧, 营养不良和忽视.
期刊摘选
Forrest Gump is an IQ of only 75 of the imbecile.
《阿甘正传》是一个智商只有75的笨蛋.
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Psychology The state or condition of being an imbecile; moderate or severe mental retardation.
低能、弱智的状态或情况; 中度或严重智力障碍.
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I've very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit.
我 倒 想狠狠地摇撼你, 就因为你的可鄙的奸诈, 和你那低能的奇想.
辞典例句
Did you ever see anything so imbecile as her mother?
象她母亲那样无用的人,你说少见不少见?
辞典例句
In some respects she was a little bit of a imbecile, in that nothing was sacred.
她在不少事情上都缺少一种道德观, 在她的眼里,没有一样东西是神圣的.
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By the way go easy with that money like a good young imbecile.
至于那笔款呢,省着点儿花,乖乖地像个小傻瓜那样.
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She thought that only an imbecile would keep at something that doomed to be a failure.
明知注定要失败还要执着,她认为只有傻子才会这么做.
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Forrest Gump an IQ of only 75 imbecile.
阿甘是个智商只有75的低能儿.
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When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
当你指向月亮时, 愚蠢的人却看你的手指.
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He was an imbecile to sign a contract with them.
他跟他们签合同,真是愚不可及.
辞典例句
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles?
你注意到低能儿总是微笑 吗 ?
期刊摘选
He was imbecile to sign a contract with them.
他跟他们“签”合同,真是愚不可及.
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One might have laughed at the farcical, imbecile measures that were taken to relieve it.
他们对所采取的这些滑稽而愚蠢的解救措施一定会忍不住大笑起来.
辞典例句
I told you to act like a drunk vagrant imbecile.
我告诉你,要装得象个喝醉的白痴.
电影对白
For two years that imbecile threw his money away like this.
两年来那个傻瓜就像这样挥霍钱财.
《简明英汉词典》
If I was once to sit down under it, I should become imbecile.
我要是忍受这事, 不成为一个傻瓜才怪呢!
辞典例句
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
