1. 1意志/心志薄弱、沒主見、耳根子軟;(舊用法)智力不足

    Weak-minded works two ways, and they are close but not the same. First, it can mean not very intelligent — slow to think, unable to understand much. This use is old, and today it sounds and out of date; you may meet it in older books, where it was almost a medical label for people we would now describe quite differently. Kind speakers avoid it in this meaning. Second, and much more common now, it means easily persuaded: a weak-minded person believes whatever they are told, follows the crowd, is talked into things, cannot hold on to their own opinion. That is the sense you will meet in modern writing — 'only a weak-minded person would fall for that advert'. Both uses are insults; you never call yourself weak-minded except as a joke about, say, buying too much chocolate. Compare : is about not doing what you planned, weak-minded is about not thinking for yourself. They overlap, and people are not always careful about the difference.

From the word’s history

Compound of weak + minded.

由 weak「軟弱」加 minded 組成。

Wiktionary

組成weak + minded (mind + -ed, 'having a mind of a certain kind'). English has a whole family of these: open-minded, narrow-minded, absent-minded, like-minded.

同家族的字

  • mindthe thinking part inside 'minded'
  • open-mindedsame -minded pattern: 'having an open mind'
  • absent-mindedsame -minded pattern: 'having a mind that is somewhere else'
  • weakensame 'weak' + -en

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

weak-mindedadj

  • 1

    Having or exhibiting a mind that lacks steadfastness, resoluteness or especially judgment; not strong-minded.

    • Jabba the Hutt: I told you not to admit him. / Luke Skywalker: I must be allowed to speak. / Bib Fortuna: He must be allowed to speak. / Jabba the Hutt: You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind trick! / Luke Skywalker: You will bring Captain Solo and the wookie to me. / Jabba the Hutt: Your mind powers will not work on me, boy.
    • Stupid, she told herself. Vain, weak-minded, and stupid.
  • 2

    offensivehistoricalMentally or intellectually deficient; feeble-minded; half-witted.

    • Their mother is insane ; father somewhat weak-minded.
    • […] they have been looked upon as unstable and the result has been weak-minded progeny.

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