imbecility

英

美

n.  痴愚；弱智

复数：imbecilities　

TEM8医学

BNC.49140 / COCA.38730

英英释义

noun

• a stupid mistake
  Synonym:stupiditybetisefollyfoolishness
• retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot

双语例句

• He derided the surrealists as'leaders of modernistic imbecility '.
  他嘲笑超现实主义画家是“现代主义低能”的领导者。
• Under the circumstance of government imbecility, the fellow society played important roles in social control, conflict harmonization and interest protection in modern Shanghai's administration of non-native migrating population.
  在政府缺位和政府管理能力不足的情况下，同乡组织在近代上海外来人口管理中发挥了重要的社会控制、冲突协调、利益维护作用。
• You're probably already making a scrunched up, pinched look with your face and shaking your head at my imbecility.
  你恐怕已经眉头深锁、头摇得像波浪鼓似的，对我愚蠢的行为不堪苟同。
• And young men like billiards and cards, which take their minds off the imbecility of everyday work.
  年轻人喜欢打台球，耍扑克，这些可以排遣因日常工作中的缺失而淤在心中的郁闷。
• No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man-the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it.
  没有人能够经营好这样的企业&在那里虽然有众多人手，但是令人惊讶的是，其中充满了许多碌碌无为的人，这些人要么没有能力，要么不情愿去集中精力做好一件事。
• If hundreds of civilians are killed, and hundreds of thousands put to flight, so be it: in war, under israel's philosophy, moderation is imbecility.
  如果有成百上千的市民将在这场站战争中丧生，成千上万的士兵将要牺牲，那就让它发生吧：在以色列的战争哲学中，适可而止就是低能愚蠢。
• The temptation is to laugh at the bureaucratic imbecility of such wrangling.
  人们不禁嘲笑这种争论的官僚愚蠢之处。
• That is not a reason; it is mere waywardness and imbecility.
  说它就像尼亚加拉瀑布，那不是原因，只是任性和愚蠢。
• A monument to imbecility and perversity in scholarship.
  学术上愚蠢和乖僻的典型。
• The essence of war is violence; moderation in war is imbecility!
  战争的本质是暴力，战争中的中庸便是低能！