喜樂美語

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Picture someone whose good sense has slipped for a moment — they do something that just does not add up. That is silly. Which way the word leans depends entirely on tone: leaning hard it means ; leaning gently it means playful and ; used of a thing it means too small to matter; and pushed to the end of a phrase it becomes a measure of how far past sense you have gone.

可以想成：一個人腦子裡的判斷力暫時脫線了，做出一件說不通的事。silly 抓的就是這個「脫線」的瞬間。它往哪邊倒完全…更多收起可以想成：一個人腦子裡的判斷力暫時脫線了，做出一件說不通的事。silly 抓的就是這個「脫線」的瞬間。它往哪邊倒完全看語氣：用力一點是「不明智」；輕一點就變成孩子氣的好笑；拿來說事情則是「小到不值得計較」；放在句尾時，它甚至變成一把尺，量的是你離正常已經多遠。

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小到不值得計較

從人身上換到事情上：不是誰脫線了，而是這件事本身輕到不值得認真對待。

trivial · adjective · B1

Not serious, useful, or important; too small or pointless to be worth much.

無聊的 / 沒必要的

做到失去分寸

放到動詞後面時，silly 不再形容人品，而是變成一把尺：這件事做到你已經不正常了。

laugh/scare yourself silly · adjective · B1

Used in phrases like 'laugh/scare yourself silly' to mean doing something so much that you stop behaving sensibly.

…到失控

Also in this word

unwise · adjective · B1

Not sensible or wise; showing poor judgment about what is a good idea.

愚蠢的 / 不明智的

foolish (childish) · adjective · B1

Behaving or looking foolish in a childish, funny, or slightly embarrassing way.

傻氣的 / 好笑的

silly (term of endearment) · noun · B1

A friendly, gentle word you call someone when they are being a little foolish.

傻瓜 / 傻孩子

原始詞典資料21 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。

sillyadj/ˈsɪl.i/

  • 1

    Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.

    • They were laughing at a silly joke.
    • silly grin
  • 2

    Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.

    • He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.
  • 3

    obsoleteBlessed

    • The sylyman lay and herde, / And hys wyf answerd.
    • The King of Spaine is counted very ſtrong, and the Pope is counted very ſtrong, because they haue a ſtrong hand to perſecute the ſilly ones of leſus Chriſt.
  • 4

    obsoleteBlessed

    • ... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes.
  • 5

    rarePitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly

    • The fire raging upon the silly Carcase.
    • Silly... in the same sense as E. poor is often used, denoting a state which excites compassion.
  • 6

    rareliteraryPitiful, inspiring compassion

    • There is no best in þe word, I wene... / That suffuris halfe so myche tene / As doth þe sylly wat.
    • In the silly lambis skin He crap als far as he micht win.
  • 7

    rareliteraryPitiful, inspiring compassion

    • scared silly
    • Wherfore Christe must soo moche the more instantelye be sought vpon, that he may vouchsafe to defende vs sylly wretches.
  • 8

    rarePitiful, inspiring compassion

    • Ane sillie scheill vnder ane erdfast stane
    • […]A pettigree / Of threescore and two yeares a sillie time, / To make prescription for a kingdomes worth.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    rarePitiful, inspiring compassion

    • Here we see that a smal sillie Bird knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.
    • [Christ] leaueth neither Children nor kinsfolke behind him to vphold his sillie kingdome.
  • 10

    rarePitiful, inspiring compassion

    • To doe the thing we can / To please... / This silly sickly man.
    • Is there ony thing you would particularly fancy, as your health seems but silly?
  • 11

    rareSimple, plain

    • Dauid had no more but a sylie slynge, and a few stones.
  • 12

    obsoleterareSimple, plain

    • The silly herdman all astonnied standes.
    • So luvaris lair no leid suld lak, A lord to lufe a silly lass.
  • 13

    obsoleteMentally simple, foolish

    • From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).
  • 14

    Mentally simple, foolish

    • silly mistake
    • Wee sillie soules, take the matter too too heauily.
  • 15

    Mentally simple, foolish

    • Fow ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid bot scho of lufe wes sillie.
    • Davie's no just like other folk... but he's no sae silly as folk tak him for.
  • 16

    Mentally simple, foolish

    • You say you were knocked silly—was that so?
    • Drinking myself silly...
  • 17

    ball-gamescricketgamesVery close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.

    • Carpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward.

sillyadv/ˈsɪl.i/

  • 1

    regionalSillily: in a silly manner.

    • If you did but see how silly a Man fumbles for an Excuse, when he's a little asham'd of being in Love.

sillynoun/ˈsɪl.i/

  • 1

    A silly person.

    • While they, poor sillies, bid good night, O' love an' bogles eerie.
    • "Oh, Bill. I can't - Oh, my dear, I've been hoping so much.... Oh, Bill..." said Josella. I had forgotten all about Susan until a voice came from above. "You are getting wet, you silly. Why don't you kiss her indoors?" it asked.
  • 2

    A term of address.

    • ‘Come on, silly,’ said Nannie.
  • 3

    A mistake.

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。