cretin
cretin 英 [ˈkretɪn] 美 [ˈkritn]
n. 白痴病患者
名词复数:cretins
- The English language has no shortage of cruel names for people, and one of them is cretin, which is what you’d call someone who is very, very dumb in the head.
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- n. 白痴病患者
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1. No new young cretin has been found during or since the initiation of the Emergency Response Plan in 2007.
自从2007年紧急反应计划实施以来，还没有发现新的年轻白痴病患者。
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2. The word “cretin” is believed to come from a mountain dialect of French, apparently because iodine deficiency in the Alps produced so many cretins.
“cretin”这个词可能就是来自法国山区的方言，因为在阿尔卑斯地区由于碘缺乏，有很多cretin患者。
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3. It is almost unbelievable that one could even contemplate a population where in 13 out of every 100 live births, the child was a cretin.
这几乎是难以置信的。谁能想象一个地区的人口，每100个新生婴儿中就有13个是白痴（克汀）病患者。
- cretin (n.) 1779, from French crétin (18c.), from Alpine dialect crestin, "a dwarfed and deformed idiot" of a type formerly found in families in the Alpine lands, a condition caused by a congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones. The word is of uncertain origin. By many it has been identified with Vulgar Latin *christianus "a Christian," a generic term for "anyone," but often with a sense of "poor fellow." Related: Cretinism (1796).
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