silliness

英

美

n.  愚蠢，糊涂

复数：sillinesses　

BNC.33210 / COCA.19986

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 愚蠢的;幼稚的;荒唐的
  If you say that someone or something issilly, you mean that they are foolish, childish, or ridiculous.
  1. My best friend tells me that I am silly to be upset about this...
     我最好的朋友说我要是为这事而沮丧难过就真够傻的。
  2. You silly boy; why did you tramp about so long in the cold?...
     你这个傻孩子，为什么大冷天走这么大老远的路？
  3. I thought it would be silly to be too rude at that stage...
     我原本觉得在那个时候太粗鲁会很愚蠢。
  4. That's a silly question.
     那是个愚蠢的问题。
  5. ...a silly hat.
     可笑的帽子
• ADJ (喝得)昏头昏脑的;(笑得)傻里傻气的
  If you do something such as laugh or drinkyourself silly, you do it so much that you are unable to think or behave sensibly.
  1. Right now the poor old devil's drinking himself silly...
     这会儿那可怜的老家伙又喝得糊里糊涂的了。
  2. Poor Donald's been worrying himself silly.
     可怜的唐纳德一直在杞人忧天。

英英释义

noun

• an impulsive scatterbrained manner
  Synonym:giddiness
• a ludicrous folly
  1. the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior
  Synonym:absurdityfatuityfatuousness

双语例句

• Earnest affectation is anyhow better than frivolous silliness.
  认真的矫情也比轻佻的愚蠢来得好些。
• We are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers, Mr Obama said on Wednesday. We do not have time for this kind of silliness.
  如果我们被杂耍表演和狂欢节拉客者分散注意力，我们将无法解决我们的问题，奥巴马周三表示。我们没有时间可以浪费在这种蠢事上。
• We won't listen to any silliness.
  我们不愿再听到任何蠢事了。
• World Cup depends all too much on the weaknesses of the officiating and the silliness of the rules.
  世界杯的结果再次被拙劣的判罚和愚蠢的规则所左右。
• Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.
  惧怕改变使得他们对他人伪装，也对自己伪装，才得到某种满足，但在内心深处，他们却渴望笑得自在，糊糊涂涂再活一次。
• Chandler: Well, we are fond of the silliness, but we also have a soft spot for the love.
  钱德乐：哦，我们喜欢愚蠢，不过我们更喜欢爱情。
• Silliness, ignorance and indolence are very costly!
  愚蠢、知和懒惰是要付出代价的！
• You'd think this would dissuade teams from offering it in all but the most overwhelming bargains, but once the silliness of free-agent season starts, it seem they just can't help themselves.
  也许你会觉得那样会使得球队在获取这些势不可挡的廉价品时有所畏惧，但是一旦愚蠢的自由球员市场开启，他们就会情不自禁。
• This is not actually one story but two, joined by exposition that is only tolerable because of the over-the-top silliness of the performers involved and the goofy lines they are fed.
  实际上，这不是一个故事，而是两个，只不过被说明性的文字连接在一起了，但演员们的搞笑演出以及滑稽的台词弥补了这样的不足。
• For that one moment he dropped his silliness and spoke with dignity.
  那一刻，他甩掉了他的愚笨，尊严地做了回答。