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If you call a remark, a grin, or an idea fatuous, you are saying it is silly in an empty, way — not just a bit dumb, but foolish and a little pleased with itself, as if nobody stopped to think. It is a strong, rather word. You will meet it in essays, news comments, and novels more than in the street. People often pair it with remark, comment, grin, or smile: a fatuous grin is the look of someone who seems happy and clueless at the same time. Though actually, it is harsher than silly. Silly can still feel warm; fatuous usually does not. It carries a quiet slap: this is not only wrong — it is empty.
愚昧可笑的；空洞的愚蠢
組成From Latin fatuus, “foolish, silly, simple.”
同家族的字
- infatuatesame Latin fatuus: to infatuate someone is to make them foolish, usually with love
- fatuouslythe adverb, from fatuous + -ly
- fatuousnessthe noun, from fatuous + -ness
原始詞典資料1 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。
fatuousadj/ˈfæt.ju.əs/
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Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
- Near-synonyms: vacuous; see also Thesaurus:stupid
- Maude Lebowski: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here. The Dude: He fixes the cable? Maude: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
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。