| 单词 | blind |
| 释义 | blind (once / 81 pages) 1adjvn 2adj 3n Someone who's blind can't see. People who are blind can often get around easily with the aid of a cane and sometimes a service dog. You might get hit by a baseball and end up blind in one eye, or be temporarily blind after a trip to the eye doctor. The word also means "without looking," as in a blind taste test of three different brands of chocolate milk. A figurative way to be blind is to refuse or be unable to see the truth: "He was blind to the reality of the situation." This tendency can be called a person's "blind side." WORD FAMILYblind: blinded, blinder, blindest, blinding, blindingly, blindly, blindness, blinds+/blinder: blinders/blinding: blindingest/blindness: blindnesses USAGE EXAMPLES"They should be starting with the outcome that they want and working backwards. Right now they are literally just kind of flying blind." Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) It’s been building up for years, and now the contrasts in America are so glaring as to be blinding. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) “New Year’s morning in Beijing, I thought I was blind,” said another, attaching a photo of a window completely darkened with grey haze. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj unable to see "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan Syn|Ant unsighted blinded deprived of sight blindfold, blindfoldedwearing a blindfold color-blind, colour-blindunable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors dazzledhaving vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light deuteranopic, green-blindinability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impairedhaving greatly reduced vision eyeless, sightless, unseeinglacking sight protanopic, red-blindinability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green snow-blind, snow-blindedtemporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice stone-blindcompletely blind blue-blind, tritanopicinability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow sighted able to see argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedhaving very keen vision clear-sightedhaving sharp clear vision seeinghaving vision, not blind 2adj unable or unwilling to perceive or understand blind to a lover's faults blind to the consequences of their actions Syn unperceiving, unperceptive lacking perception 3v make blind by putting the eyes out The criminals were punished and blinded Hypo|Hyper abacinate blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 4v render unable to see Hypo bedazzle, daze, dazzle to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light seelsew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons snow-blindaffect with snow blindness 5v make dim by comparison or conceal Syn|Hyper dim darken make dark or darker 6n people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group 2he spent hours reading to the blind Hyper people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively adj not based on reason or evidence 3blind hatred blind faith Syn unreasoning irrational not consistent with or using reason 1n something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity the holding company was just a blind Syn|Hyper subterfuge deceit, deception, misrepresentation a misleading falsehood 2n a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet Syn|Hypo|Hyper screen curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) shuttera hinged blind for a window window blinda blind for privacy or to keep out light blinder, blinker, winkerblind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side deadlighta strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather drop, drop cloth, drop curtaina curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery festoona curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves frontala drapery that covers the front of an altar jalousiea shutter made of angled slats portierea heavy curtain hung across a doorway shower curtaina curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area theater curtain, theatre curtaina hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance Venetian blinda window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed window shadean opaque window blind that can cover or uncover a window protection, protective cover, protective covering a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury 3n a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) he waited impatiently in the blind Hyper concealment, cover, covert, screen a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something |
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