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Brainless means completely stupid: acting as if you have no brain at all — not a small slip, but something a person would not do if they had used their head. Informal, and if you say it about a person.
BrainlessBrainless means completely stupid意思是完全笨:acting as if you have no brain at all表現得好像完全沒有大腦一樣——not a small slip不是小小的失誤,but而是 something a person would not do if they had used their head一件如果有用腦子就不會做的事。Informal這是口語用字,and而且 unkind if you say it about a person如果拿來說一個人是不客氣的。
We also use it of actions, ideas, and rules: a brainless mistake, a brainless rule. It is stronger than silly and close to stupid.
We also use it我們也會拿它 of actions, ideas, and rules來說行為、想法和規定:a brainless mistake無腦的錯誤、a brainless rule無腦的規定。It is stronger than silly它比 silly(傻)語氣更重,and而且 close to stupid接近 stupid(笨)。
A kind teacher almost never calls a student brainless. Younger speakers, especially online, use it the way speakers use 無腦.
A kind teacher一位好心的老師 almost never calls a student brainless幾乎不會用 brainless 稱呼學生。Younger speakers年輕的說話者,especially online尤其在網路上,use it the way Taiwanese speakers use 無腦用法就像台灣人說「無腦」一樣。
Though actually, we often put it on a moment (“that was brainless”) rather than on a whole human being, and that is a little kinder. The word is almost always figurative; it does not mean a body with the brain taken out.
Though actually不過其實,we often put it on a moment我們常常是用在某個瞬間上('that was brainless''that was brainless'),rather than on a whole human being而不是整個人身上,and而且 that is a little kinder這樣說比較沒那麼傷人。The word is almost always figurative這個字幾乎都是比喻用法;it does not mean a body with the brain taken out並不是指一個大腦被拿掉的身體。
組成From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less. Brain is the thinking organ; -less means without it.
同家族的字
- brainthe thinking organ; -less says you are acting without it
- brainlesslythe adverb: doing something in this not-thinking way
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。
brainlessadj
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Having no brain.
- Surely it was more likely that a brainless creature, acting solely by vague predatory instinct, would give up the chase when I disappeared, and, after a pause of astonishment, would wander away in search of some other prey?
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Unintelligent, with little common sense.
- "I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!"
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Of an action performed, overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull
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。