| 词汇 | stupidity |
| 释义 | stupidity noun[ U ] uk /stjuːˈpɪd.ə.ti/ us /stuːˈpɪd.ə.t̬i/ C2 the state of being silly or unwise: 愚蠢 a moment/act of stupidity一时的愚蠢／愚蠢的举动 Her stupidity is beyond belief sometimes.有时候她蠢得令人难以置信。 It was sheer stupidity to refuse at the price they were offering.他们出那样的价钱还不卖，真是愚蠢透顶。 Stupid and silly behaviour antics buffoonery dottiness dumbness fatuousness foolishness frivolousness fruit loopery game idiocy lark ludicrousness madness mindlessness oafishness obtuseness screwball the games (that) people playidiom tomfoolery vacuousness Examples of stupiditystupidity The histrionics of the lead guitar, the excesses of the drummer, and the stupidity of the bass player have to mix on equal footing. The letter asserted that ' ' a very small band of hoodlums cannot be allowed to upset our economy by their childish acts of stupidity. The council persists in the view that the applicants' stupidity is to blame. The reason, he hypothesizes, is that excess food produces moisture that causes obesity and, as the moisture rises to the brain, stupidity. This was ridiculous; he was going to die from stupidity. Sometimes his shyness was even interpreted as stupidity, an error that heightened his feelings of inferiority. Most of the moral literature perceives youth as the negative pole of adulthood and old age and describes it in the most negative terms : of stupidity, sleep, intoxication and perversion. About 30 % could not supply any 'explanation' for their conduct, and admitted to stupidity, rather than to negligence, when we suggested that they may have been careless. In several key instances, monolingualism is associated with ignorance, and individuals are described as being in a state of "monolingual stupidity" (p. 644) or "suffering from monolingual stupidity" (p. 662). Rassundari's account of her childhood projects an image of total innocence verging on stupidity. But to me they were tragedies, monuments to our stupidity, our lack of planning and lack of land resources. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, liberalism of this kind is apt to verge on stupidity, and such openness of mind really means emptiness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was an act of stupidity and environmental vandalism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why does she show such enthusiasm for this measure of combined stupidity and meanness? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To drive away that trade and then complain of unemployment is either stupidity or humbug. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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