dunce
dunce 英 [dʌns] 美 [dʌns]
n. 傻瓜；劣学生
名词复数:dunces
- A dunce is a dummy — someone who isn't smart. You might be tempted to call your little brother a dunce when he walks out the door with his shoes on the wrong feet.
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- n. 傻瓜；劣学生
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1. When he changed his school to Brighton, his reputation as a dunce followed him.
当他转校到布赖顿时，他作为劣等生的名声也跟他一起到了那里。
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2. The warhead shown in the schematics had the familiar "dunce cap" shape of the original North Korean No Dong missile, which Iran had acquired in the mid-1990s.
示意图中的弹头有着熟悉的原北朝鲜No Dong 导弹的“傻瓜帽（dunce cap）”形状，伊朗是在1990年代中期获得的。
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3. The greatest novelist of the 19th Century, Sir Walter Scott, was given the title of "king of blockheads" and was made to wear a dunce cap for a whole month.
19世纪最伟大的小说家之一，沃尔特·斯科特先生，曾被人称为“傻子之王”，并被戴上了象征劣等生的帽子，整整戴了一个月。
- dunce (n.) "dullard," 1570s, from earlier Duns disciple "follower of John Duns Scotus" (c. 1265-1308), Scottish scholar of philosophy and theology supposed to have been born at Duns in Berwickshire. By 16c., humanist reaction against medieval theology singled him out as the type of the hairsplitting scholastic. It became a general term of reproach applied to more conservative philosophical opponents by 1520s, later extended to any dull-witted student.
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