Picture a head with a thin fog inside it. The person is awake and moving, but questions arrive late and answers come out soft. The face that goes with it is loose and unguarded, often with a wide slow smile. Sometimes the fog has a clear cause, like medicine or a short night. Sometimes it is just how someone looks at that moment.
dopey 可以想成腦袋裡蒙了一層薄霧。人是醒的、眼睛是開的，但問題進來慢一拍，回答也慢一拍。配上的表情通常是鬆鬆的、沒什麼防備的，常常還掛著一個慢半拍的笑。這層霧有時候有明確的原因，像吃了藥、睡太少。有時候只是這個人此刻看起來呆呆的。兩個用法看到的其實是同一張臉。
From the word’s history
The supplied source analyses dopey as dope ('stupid person') + -y, that is, 'having the look of a dope'.
來源把 dopey 拆成 dope（笨的人）加上 -y（有…樣子的），字面就是「一副笨笨的樣子」。這條線索解釋了為什麼藥效造成的遲鈍，和單純的呆氣，在英文裡用的是同一個字：兩種情況從外面看起來都是那個樣子。
Wiktionary, "dopey"
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
dopeyadj/ˈdəʊpi/
- 1
Stupid, silly.
- Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette.
- We were all convinced there was a poltergeist in David's flat and had the dopey idea of taking it as a present to Jimmy. We “captured'” the ghost in a paper bag […]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。