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An empty-headed person seems silly, as if there is nothing useful going on in their head. It is a picture-word, not a doctor’s word, and it can sound . You meet it in stories more than in careful talk today. It is close in feel to . Do not use it of a who is only quiet, young, or still learning — that is a different thing from being silly.
沒大腦的、笨頭笨腦的
組成empty(空的)+ headed(有這樣的頭的)。跟 airheaded 是同一類說法:頭裡像是空的/只有空氣,意思是傻。
同家族的字
- empty前半:空的
- head後半:頭
- airheaded同一構詞:頭裡像沒裝東西,用來說人傻
- empty-handed同一類複合字:empty 加上身體的一部分
原始詞典資料2 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。
empty-headedadj
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derogatorySilly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained.
- Never has a group of actors uttered as many mealy-mouthed platitudes as you'll find bouncing off the walls of this empty-headed film.
- Hill, though, captures the entitled, empty-headed viciousness of the wealthy elites the film tries to eviscerate.
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derogatoryUnintelligent.
- “Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”
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。