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/stuːˈpɪdəti/ · /stjuːˈpɪdəti/
Stupidity is the quality of being stupid — a lack of good sense or intelligence, especially shown through a foolish action or decision. It can describe a general trait ('the stupidity of the plan') or one specific act ('a moment of stupidity').
愚蠢；愚蠢的行為
複數 stupidities
組成'Stupid' plus '-ity' (a suffix meaning 'the quality of').
同家族的字
- stupefyshares the Latin root 'stupere', to be stunned or amazed
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。
stupiditynoun/stjuːˈpɪdɪti/
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The property of being stupid.
- I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
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An act that is stupid.
- Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.
- 8. They require that crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale.
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。