dumb

adj. 哑的，无说话能力的；不说话的，无声音的

adj.

哑的，无说话能力的；不说话的，无声的；沉默的，无言的；口齿不清的，（在政府中）无代言人的，政治上无发言权的

变形

过去式：dumbed现在分词：dumbing第三人称单数：dumbs

双语释义

哑的 unable to speak

[P]说不出话的 temporarily silent; refusing to speak

愚蠢的 that was a pretty dumb thing to do

英英释义

dumb[ dʌm ]

adj.

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

"dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"

同义词：densedimdullobtuseslow

unable to speak temporarily

"struck dumb"

同义词：speechless

lacking the power of human speech

"dumb animals"

unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

同义词：mutesilent

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

dumb mistake愚蠢的错误

dumb show哑剧

～+介词

dumb from从…就哑

dumb on保持沉默

dumb with发不出声来

词组短语

deaf and dumb聋哑的，又聋又哑

dumb waiter n. 小型送货升降机；送菜升降机，餐用升降机

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“哑的，不能说话的”的意思，其区别是：

dumb可与mute换用，但dumb指根本没有说话能力或失去了说话能力。

mute多指因后天疾病而引起的聋哑，有时也指因故不说话。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

She's been dumb from birth.
她生来就是哑巴。

It was dumb of you to say that.
你说那种话真是太愚蠢了。

She was unfairly caricatured as a dumb blonde.
她被不公正地丑化成了一个傻头傻脑的金发女郎。

He was struck dumb by her sharp question.
他被她那尖锐的问题弄得哑口无言。

We were struck dumb with horror and grief.
惊恐和忧伤使我们哑口无言。

权威例句

dumb

dumb: [OE] The notion underlying dumb is of ‘sensory or mental impairment’. It goes back to a nasalized version of prehistoric Indo-European *dheubh-, denoting ‘confusion, stupefaction, or dizziness’, which was also the ultimate source of English deaf. This developed two stands of meaning. The first, through association of ‘sensory or mental impairment’ and ‘slowwittedness’, led to forms such as German dumm and Dutch dom, which mean ‘stupid’ (the use of dumb to mean ‘stupid’ did not develop until the 19th century, in American English, presumably under the influence of the German and Dutch adjectives).The other was semantic specialization to a particular sort of mental impairment, the inability to speak, which produced Gothic dumbs, Old Norse dumbr, and English dumb. (The German word for ‘dumb’, stumm, is related to English stammer and stumble, as are Dutch stom and Swedish stum.) Dummy [16] is a derivative; it originally meant ‘dumb person’.=> deaf, dummy

dumb (adj.)

Old English dumb "silent, unable to speak," from PIE *dheubh- "confusion, stupefaction, dizziness," from root *dheu- (1) "dust, mist, vapor, smoke," and related notions of "defective perception or wits." The Old English, Old Saxon (dumb), Gothic (dumbs), and Old Norse (dumbr) forms of the word meant only "mute, speechless;" in Old High German (thumb) it meant both this and "stupid," and in Modern German this latter became the only sense. Meaning "foolish, ignorant" was occasionally in Middle English, but modern use (1823) comes from influence of German dumm. Related: dumber; dumbest. Applied to silent contrivances, hence dumbwaiter. As a verb, in late Old English, "to become mute;" c. 1600, "to make mute." To dumb (something) down is from 1933.

1. I came up with this dumb idea.

我想出了这个愚蠢而恼人的主意。

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2. She was born deaf and dumb.

她天生又聋又哑。

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3. That was a pretty dumb thing to do.

做那样的事太愚蠢了。

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4. In her early movies she played a dumb blonde.

在她早期的电影中，她扮演傻乎乎的金发女郎。

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5. She was unfairly caricatured as a dumb blonde.

她被不公正地丑化成了一个傻头傻脑的金发女郎。

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6. Nowadays we say someone is 'speech-impaired', not dumb.

现在我们说某个人“有语言障碍”，而不说是哑巴。

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7. This programme disproves the theory that TV, a middlebrow medium, is neither as smart as the smartest films nor as dumb as the dumbest.

该节目不赞同如下理论：作为中等品味媒体的电视既不如最富智慧的电影那样睿智，又不像最笨拙不堪的电影那样笨拙。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8. The deaf and dumb man said all that!

那个又聋又哑的人说了那些话！

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9. I assumed you were dumb but adorable.

我以为你可爱但只是有点笨。

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10. The representing sets of integers are pretty dumb.

这些表示整数的集合是相当愚蠢的。

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11. The representing sets of integers are pretty dumb.

这些表示整数的集合是相当愚蠢的。

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12. There are smart ways to cut, but they are dumb ways.

有聪明的办法来削减，但他们用的都是愚蠢的方法。

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13. Your least-favorite reporter suggests a dumb story idea.

你最不喜欢的那个记者提出了一个愚蠢的故事创意。

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14. I think that mandatory voting is a no-braine and dumb idea.

我认为强制投票这事是一个无脑的，极其愚蠢的想法。

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15. Now, sir, what did you want to treat that poor dumb beast so, for?

喂，小子，你为什么要这样对待那可怜的、不会说话的家伙呢？

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16. I personally think it's dumb, but other than complain, deal with it.

我个人认为这是愚蠢的，但除了抱怨，就是要解决它。

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17. Every office has its share of favoritism, inefficiency and dumb decisions.

每个办公室都有他偏袒、低效并且愚蠢的决定。

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18. Jerry looks dumb, but believe it or not, he's the smartest boy in our class.

杰瑞看起来很笨，但信不信由你，他是我们班最聪明的男孩子。

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19. The whisperings ceased as suddenly as if the whisperers had been stricken dumb.

人们的窃窃私语突然停止了，就像是那些窃窃私语的人突然变成哑巴一样。

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20. Unless you find a dumb buyer, there will be a price reduction once the truth comes out.

除非你找到一个愚蠢的买家，否则一旦真相大白降价势在必行。

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21. If we don't learn, and choose to distance ourselves from others, we might be getting dumb.

如果我们不去学习，而且又选择远离他人，我们可能会因此变得愚蠢。

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22. It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

很难想象，许多人仅仅因为瑞茜和安吉利娜让养育孩子看起来如此迷人就愚蠢地想要孩子：大多数成年人都明白，养孩子不是剪头发那样简单。

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23. We sat there in dumb silence.

我们坐在那里，默然无语。

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24. We were all struck dumb for a minute.

我们一时个个都哑口无言。

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25. I decided to act dumb.

我决定装哑。

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26. We were all struck dumb with amazement.

我们都惊讶得说不出话来。

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27. The questions were set up to make her look dumb.

这些问题是安排好让她显得蠢的。

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28. She didn't want to be typecast as a dumb blonde.

她不想总是演傻乎乎的金发女郎一类的角色。

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29. In dumb astonishment, the teacher, putting down his book, looked at the boy.

老师惊讶得说不出话来，他放下书，看着那个男孩。

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30. In dumb astonishment, the teacher, putting down his book, looked at the boy.

老师惊讶得说不出话来，他放下书，看着那个男孩。

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31. dumb crambo

猜字游戏

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

32. The `b' in `dumb' isn't

dumb中的b 不发音.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

33. The `b' in `dumb' is mute.

在dumb一字中b不发音.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

34. dumb from birth

生来即哑

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

35. In the word "dumb", you don't pronounce the "B"

在“dumB”这个字中,“B”不发音。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 学习

36. dumb luck.

偶然的运气

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

37. The basic meaning of @dumb@ in both British and American English, is @unable to speak.

在英国英语和美国英语中“dumb”一词的基本意思是“哑的”，

-- 来源 -- 英语阅读100(1) - Ⅰ. The English Language Part 6 American English and British English (1)

38. dumb resentment.

无声的憎恨

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

39. dumb officials;a dumb decision.

愚钝的官员们；愚蠢的决定

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

40. a dumb show

哑戏

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考