| 单词 | foolish |
| 释义 | fool·ish 1. a. b. < many changes that well might seem rash, mistaken, foolish and ill-advised — J.C.Powys > c. < obscurely and uselessly, like a foolish suggestion — Liam O'Flaherty > d. < a prince who should … not, like a subject, foolish matters mince — John Keats > e. < the line which foolish birds are caught with — William Wordsworth > f. < when you began to feel foolish about that man, I warned you he would not make you happy — Thomas Hardy > 2. a. < a foolish little hat > b. < stood looking and feeling foolish — Arnold Bennett > c. obsolete 3. < we have a trifling, foolish banquet toward — Shakespeare > < all our foolish little paper knives and pincushions — Compton Mackenzie > Synonyms: < only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment — F.D.Roosevelt > < we need courage to look into our own heart and clear it of the foolish desires which make us sow vain hopes and devote needless toil and anxiety to raise bitter crops of disappointment — M.R.Cohen > silly may indicate a fatuous lack of common sense, a witless, inane, or childish lack of reason < how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be, especially if he's getting on in years — Dashiell Hammett > < a circle of silly young officers, who talked in bellicose and boastful terms — Times Literary Supplement > absurd may apply to what is flagrantly and ridiculously inconsistent with reason and common sense < it is absurd to suppose that the shrewd traders … were moved by an abstract question of hereditary right — J.R.Green > preposterous may indicate glaring, nonsensical lack of reasonableness < if a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altarpiece or painted window — T.H.Huxley > < a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history — V.L.Parrington > < a preposterous kind of resentment which endeavors to wreak itself on the beloved object — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Synonym: see in addition simple. |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。