英汉词典

blind 基本解释

• adj. 盲目的；瞎的
• adv. 盲目地；看不见地
• n. 掩饰，借口；百叶窗
• vt. 使失明；使失去理智
• n. (Blind)人名；(法)布兰；(德、瑞典)布林德

blind 词态变化

blind 中文词源

来自PIE *bhel, 照耀，闪光。指闪光，炫目，使看不见的。瞎是词义发展的结果。词源同blend.

blind 英文词源

blind

blind: [OE] The connotations of the ultimate ancestor of blind, Indo-European *bhlendhos, seem to have been not so much ‘sightlessness’ as ‘confusion’ and ‘obscurity’. The notion of someone wandering around in actual or mental darkness, not knowing where to go, naturally progressed to the ‘inability to see’. Related words that fit this pattern are blunder, possibly from Old Norse blunda ‘shut one’s eyes’, blunt, and maybe also blend.

By the time the word entered Old English, as blind, it already meant ‘sightless’, but ancestral associations of darkness and obscurity were retained (Pepys in his diary, for instance, writes of a ‘little blind [that is, dark] bed-chamber’ 1666), and traces of them remain in such usages as ‘blind entrance’.
=> blend, blunder, blunt

blind (adj.)

Old English blind "blind," also "dark, enveloped in darkness, obscure; unintelligent, lacking mental perception," probably from Proto-Germanic *blinda- "blind" (cognates: Dutch and German blind, Old Norse blindr, Gothic blinds "blind"), perhaps, via notion of "to make cloudy, deceive," from an extended Germanic form of the PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Compare Lithuanian blendzas "blind," blesti "to become dark." The original sense would be not "sightless" but rather "confused," which perhaps underlies such phrases as blind alley (Chaucer's lanes blynde), which is older than the sense of "closed at one end" (1610s).

The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candles, is commonly called blindman's holiday. [Grose, 1796]

In reference to doing something without seeing it first, by 1840. Of aviators flying without instruments or without clear observation, from 1919. Related: Blinded; blinding. Blindman's bluff is from 1580s.

blind (v.)

"deprive of sight," early 13c., from Old English blendan "to blind, deprive of sight; deceive," from Proto-Germanic *blandjan (see blind (adj.)); form influenced in Middle English by the adjective. Related: Blinded; blinding.

blind (n.)

"a blind person; blind persons collectively," late Old Engish, from blind (adj.). Meaning "place of concealment" is from 1640s. Meaning "anything that obstructs sight" is from 1702.

blind 词组搭配

blind 英文释义

1. people who have severe visual impairments;

"he spent hours reading to the blind"

2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters);

"he waited impatiently in the blind"

3. something that keeps things out or hinders sight;

"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

4. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity;

"he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"

"the holding company was just a blind"

blind 双语例句

1. West was wilfully blind to the abuse that took place.

韦斯特对发生的虐待行为故意视而不见。

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2. For this revelation he was struck blind by the goddess Hera.

由于揭露此事，他被女神赫拉弄瞎了眼。

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3. The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.

这条路上急转弯、坡道和死拐角一个接一个。

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4. The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.

事实证明，因特网对许多公司而言是一条行不通的路。

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5. There are 1.7 million blind and visually impaired people in Britain.

英国有170万失明和视力受损人口。

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blind 实用场景例句

Doctors think he will go blind .

医生们认为他会失明。

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blind and partially sighted people

盲人和弱视者

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One of her parents is blind.

她的父母有一个是盲人。

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recorded books for the blind

为盲人制作的录音书

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guide dogs for the blind

导盲犬

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She is blind to her husband's faults.

她对丈夫的过错毫无察觉。

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I must have been blind not to realize the danger we were in.

当时我一定是眼瞎了，竟然没有意识到我们所处的危险。

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blind faith/obedience

盲目的信念；盲从

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It was a moment of blind panic .

当时是一阵莫名的惊慌。

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blind chance

盲目的偶然性

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the blind force of nature

无法抵挡的自然力

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a blind driveway

视线有盲区的车道

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a blind bend/corner

隐蔽的弯道 / 拐角

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[不可数名词] total/temporary/partial blindness

全盲；暂时性失明；半盲

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He didn't take a blind bit of notice of me (= he ignored me) .

他压根儿没理睬我。

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It won't make the blindest bit of difference (= it will make no difference at all) .

那根本不会有什么分别的。

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She was blinded in the explosion.

她在那场爆炸中双目失明了。

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The sun hit the windscreen, momentarily blinding him.

太阳照在挡风玻璃上，晃得他一时看不见东西。

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Her mother groped for the back of the chair, her eyes blind with tears.

她妈妈泪眼蒙眬地伸手去摸椅背。

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David's good looks and impeccable manners had always made her blind to his faults...

戴维英俊的长相和完美的举止总是让她对他的缺点视而不见。

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All the time I was blind to your suffering.

一直以来，我都没有意识到你遭受的痛苦。

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He never allowed his love of Australia to blind him to his countrymen's faults.

他从来不会因为对澳大利亚的热爱而看不到自己同胞的缺点。

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...her blind faith in the wisdom of the Church...

她对教会智慧的盲目信仰

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Lesley yelled at him with blind, hating rage.

莱斯莉心生愤恨，盛怒之下对他大嚷大叫。

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He tried to overtake three cars on a blind corner and crashed head-on into a lorry.

他试图在一个死角处超过前面的三辆车，结果一头撞在了一辆卡车上。

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I remembered a huddle of stone buildings with blind walls.

我记得一片没有窗户的石头建筑。

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Teachers are turning a blind eye to pupils smoking at school, a report reveals today...

今日一篇报道称，老师们对学生在学校抽烟睁一只眼闭一只眼。

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I can't turn a blind eye when someone is being robbed.

当有人遭到抢劫时，我不能视而不见。

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How would you explain colour to a blind person?

你如何向盲人解释颜色？

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I started helping him run the business when he went blind...

他失明以后，我就开始帮他打理生意。

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