单词 | silly |
释义 | sil·ly I. 1. a. b. c. d. obsolete 2. a. < silly buckets on the deck — S.T.Coleridge > < a sound peaceful and silly as any cowbell heard in the Alps — Osbert Sitwell > b. obsolete 3. a. < a child who was rather silly > b. < although we maintained a blackout at night, we felt silly about it — A.J.Liebling > < the silly air of one who does not understand fear — Arnold Bennett > c. < the question is as silly as it sounds — Telford Taylor > < always making silly remarks > d. < written in a facetious strain that accords with the rather silly title — Times Literary Supplement > < if we tend to regard the pursuit of the new as necessarily silly and modish — E.R.Bentley > < passed the time by telling silly stories > 4. < was knocked silly by the blow > < would slap me silly — J.H.Burns > < bored silly by the unwonted inactivity > 5. < silly point > < silly mid on > < silly leg > Synonyms: see foolish, simple II. < behave silly > III. < am very likely a silly — meeting trouble half-way — D.H.Lawrence > < well then, silly, why not stay! — Edna Ferber > IV. transitive verb chiefly dialect intransitive verb chiefly dialect |
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