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If you call an idea, a remark, or a plan asinine, you are saying it is extremely stupid — silly in a stubborn, empty-headed way. The word comes from Latin for “of a donkey,” because people used to treat the donkey as a picture of foolishness. It is a sharp word, a little : it sounds more educated than “stupid,” but it is not kind, and it is not a children’s word. You use it more often about what someone said or did than about their whole life, though you can do that too. Though actually, it is not mild just because it sounds fancy; it is still an insult.
愚蠢至極的（帶「笨得像驢」的意思）
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
asinineadj/ˈæs.ɪ.naɪn/
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Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.
- They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
- “Look at this festive assembly. All of us, gathered here together, chuckling at jokes and silliness.” [laughter] “And jackanapery.” [rim shots] “I guess there's only one thing left to say. What is this shit?” [rim shot] [laughter] “[laughs] Very good.” “You call yourselves vampires? Bah. This entire evening has been nothing but a pageant of insipid nonsense.” “[laughing] Yes.” “Worshipping at the altar of your own mediocre frivolity. A jester's hollow dance. And who is laughing?” “Yeah! [whoops] [grunts]” “Vampires are supposed to have blood orgies and slaughter circles. Gah! You have all gone soft. You even invited humans to this asinine affair.”
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Characteristic of an ass (an asshole): objectionably inconsiderate or jerky.
- Philo Vance is an asinine jerk - a rude, Nietzschean snob who holds most of the people he meets and the things he sees in utter disdain. He's an insufferable smarty-pants, always convinced he's right and that everyone else is wrong. Of course, he is right, but that doesn't make him any less of a jerk.
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.
- Don Quixote had put himself but a little way ayont the village of Don Diego, when he encountered two apparent priests, or students, and two husbandmen, who came mounted on four asinine beasts.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。