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If you call someone simple-minded, you are saying they are not very intelligent and cannot follow things — their thinking stays on the easy path. That is a hard word to use kindly; about a living person it usually sounds like an insult. Though actually, older writing sometimes used it for someone innocent who sees no tricks, not only for someone “slow.” In today’s English you will also hear it about ideas: a simple-minded argument is one that is too neat and misses the mess. Write it with a : simple-minded.
頭腦簡單(當面說人會傷人;也可以說一套想法「想得太淺、太天真」)
組成simple + minded. Minded means “having that kind of mind,” the same pattern as open-minded.
同家族的字
- simplethe first piece: plain, not complicated — here stretched to “not able to handle complicated thinking”
- simpletonthe noun insult built on the same simple
- open-mindedthe same -minded pattern, different meaning
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。
simple-mindedadj
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Lacking subtlety or sophistication.
- 2
Lacking mental capacity; feeble-minded.
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。