如果有人对你说“You are a real blinkard”,那你可注意啦,对方并不是认为你眼神不好,而是在diss你的智商。
英语中有很多委婉表达“某人很蠢”的句子,比如最常见的,the light is on but nobody is home(灯亮着,家里没人),a few cards short of a deck(一副扑克里少了几张牌),等等。
此外,高端人士还会使用一些我们平时不太用的词语来嘲笑别人的智商。我们还是很有必要了解一下的。
1. Anserine (adj.) [ 'ænsə,raɪn ]
Definition: stupid, silly
释义:呆的,愚笨的
Anserine comes from the Latin anser, meaning "goose." The word is indeed used on occasion to mean "resembling a goose," but the 'silly as a goose' sense preceded this by a considerable length of time.
Anserine起源于拉丁语anser,意思是“鹅”。人们偶尔的确会用这个单词形容“像鹅的”,但在此之前相当长时间,anserine就有“像鹅一样蠢”的意思。
2. Cretinize (v.) [ 'kri:tənaiz ]
Definition: to reduce to a condition of extreme stupidity
释义:(使)变成白痴
The word cretinize comes, rather obviously, from the older word cretin. This older word is most commonly used today in the sense of “a stupid, vulgar, or insensitive person,” although it initially meant “one affected with cretinism” (a genetic abnormality, and using cretin in this sense is now considered quite offensive).
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