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    Half-witted describes a person, or something they do, as stupid — slow in the head, not thinking well. Though actually this is a describing word, not a name for a person: you say a half-witted plan or a half-witted remark. You do not say “he is a half-witted” on its own; the naming word for that insult is half-wit. It sounds old and sharp, a little like something snapped in a British film. People still understand it, but it is not a fair label, and it is not a medical word.

    愚笨的、笨頭笨腦的(形容詞,語氣不友善)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成From half- + witted. Witted means “having wits” — having a mind that works. Half- cuts that in two, so the idea is “only half as clever as a person should be”.

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  • witwitted here means “having wits” — intelligence
  • half-witthe naming word for a person this describing word is aimed at

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。

half-wittedadj

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    Having low intelligence.

    • "These girls were a little queer, to be sure, almost half-witted, but that came from their having seen fairies," he added, with an indignant look at the squire.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。