| 释义 |
ˈshallow-pate Now arch.
[f. shallow a.1 + pate n.]
A person of shallow intellect.
1600Garzoni's Hosp. Incur. Fooles A 3 b, Shallow-pates and ninnie-hammers. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Shallow-pate, a foolish, silly, empty Fellow. [c1730Young Ep. to Pope 65 Each shallow pate, that cannot read your name, Can read your life, and will be proud to blame.] 1930[see dowd n.1]. 1964Listener 24 Dec. 1002/1 That complicated shallow-pate, Jean-Paul Sartre,..makes of his subjective and personal passions a sort of objective truth.
So ˈshallow-pated, a.
1616R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) 37 This age such shallow pated men affords. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxxv, The Prince was a shallow-pated coxcomb. |