| 单词 | dumb |
| 释义 | dumb I. 1. < he must have been dumb, for never a word did he utter — Herman Melville > 2. a. < dumb animals > b. of an animal c. < the great dumb trees — Anton Vogt > 3. < one pictures newspaper reporters going about, struck dumb with amazement at every smallest incident in this amazing life we lead — Rose Macaulay > 4. a. < how terrible is that dumb grief which has never learned to moan — John Galsworthy > < let the world wail! … my sorrow shall be dumb! — Edna S. V. Millay > b. < the expression of loss and loneliness and dumb desire on his face — Irwin Shaw > 5. a. < if they had nothing to say, they were capable of sitting for hours, dumb and unabashed, over their pipes or their plugs of tobacco — Ellen Glasgow > < I beg that you remain dumb, that you write no more poems — Amy Lowell > b. < with frantic dumb play Anton signaled to Vincent — Basil Thomson > < legend and tradition demand that bells be dumb until they are blessed — P.D.Peery > 6. < his work is infantile, dumb with botched detail, wooden scenes, and collapsed characterizations — J.S.Shrike > 7. < dumb barge > < dumb lighter > 8. a. of a person < too dumb to do things in the right way — W.J.Reilly > < blind to Galileo on his turret, dumb to Homer, dumb to Keats — Robert Browning > b. of an action or thing < must learn to disregard the dumb advice … of relatives and friends — R.V.Seliger > < bad weather, youthful recklessness, carelessness, and plain dumb flying — Time > Synonyms: < must I live all my life as mute as a mackerel? — L.P.Smith > < yon dumb patient camel — Robert Browning > In reference to persons, dumb may imply some physical defect, mute an insensibility to speech brought about through deafness < the other was a wretch from infancy made dumb by poison — P.B.Shelley > < like the mute dwarfs which wait upon a naked Indian queen — Robert Browning > In reference to persons normally able to speak, dumb may suggest a quite short deprivation of ability to utter sounds < I was bewildered and dumb until Livilla gave me a good pinching, at which I burst into tears — Robert Graves > < he made despairing gestures with his hands, but still no words came from his mouth. He might have been struck dumb — W.S.Maugham > mute may be used when an inner compulsion to stay silent is suggested < but every man was mute for reverence — Alfred Tennyson > < as the conversation took fire, she hadn't so much as a chip to throw in. She sat mute — Sinclair Lewis > speechless, although it often has the same suggestions of dumb or mute, commonly indicates momentary loss of power to speak < overcome with speechless gratitude — William Wordsworth > < I can remember, across the years, standing there with that paper in my hand; dumb, speechless and probably tearful — W.A.White > inarticulate implies either lack of satisfactory speech functions or an inability to speak coherently, clearly, or purposefully < his jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds — Mary W. Shelley > < but when Richard, inarticulate at first, in his haste, cried out: “My dear, dear father!” — George Meredith > < his rage was a madness. His lips were flecked with a soapy froth, and sometimes he choked and became inarticulate — Jack London > < as shyly inarticulate as a schoolgirl on this theme so vital to her — Rose Macaulay > Synonym: see in addition stupid. II. intransitive verb transitive verb < the sight of the great assembly that dumbed the words in his mouth — Donn Byrne > < would lie around, dumbed by the drugs — Norman Mailer > III. 1. < a dumb terminal > — compare intelligent 1 herein 2. < dumb bombs > — compare smart herein |
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