​fatuous 「 愚蠢的；愚昧的」的运用

Word of the Day： April 10, 2021

fatuous

愚蠢的；愚昧的

adjective FATCH-oo-us

Definition

: complacently or inanely foolish：silly

自满的（沾沾自喜）或愚蠢的：愚蠢的；不明事理的

Examples

'You would have to be an inattentive person never to have noticed the incongruity between the well-informed but fatuous opinions of your forward-thinking peers on the one hand, and the simple but wise judgments of your parents or grandparents on the other.' — Barton Swaim, Commentary, November 2020

“你必须成为一个心不在焉的人，一方面是 never to have noticed the incongruity between the well-informed but fatuous opinions of your forward-thinking peers , 另一方面是您父母或祖父母的简单但明智的判断。”

'Jules Feiffer's cartoons in the Village Voice, which started appearing in 1956, made fun of the kind of people who read the Village Voice.... It's not that people like to laugh at themselves. They like to laugh at people who are just a little more fatuous and self-absorbed than themselves.' — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2021

“朱尔斯·费弗（Jules Feiffer）在1956年出现的漫画《乡村之声》中，取笑那些读《乡村之声》的人......这并不是说人们喜欢自嘲。……也不是人们喜欢嘲笑自己。他们喜欢嘲笑那些只是比自己更 fatuous「愚蠢的」 和self-absorbed「自私的」。”

Did You Know?

'I am two fools, I know, / For loving, and for saying so / In whining Poetry,' wrote John Donne, simultaneously confessing to both infatuation and fatuousness. As any love-struck fool can attest, infatuation can make buffoons of the best of us. So it should come as no surprise that the words fatuous and infatuation derive from the same Latin root, fatuus, which means 'foolish.' Both terms have been part of English since the 17th century. Infatuation followed the earlier verb infatuate, a fatuus descendant that once meant 'to make foolish' but that now usually means 'to inspire with a foolish love or admiration.'

“ 我知道，我是两个傻瓜，/ For loving, and for saying so / In whining Poetry，”约翰·多恩写道，同时也承认自己迷恋与痴情。 任何坠入爱河的傻瓜都可以证明，迷恋会把我们最好的自己变成小丑。 因此，“fatuous「愚蠢的」”和“infatuation「痴情」”源自同一的拉丁语词根“ fatuus”（意为“foolish「愚蠢」”）也就不足为奇了。 自17世纪以来，这两个术语一直是英语的一部分。Infatuation跟在早期动词Infatuation之后，是fatuus的后代，曾经是“to make foolish「做傻事」”的意思，但现在通常是'to inspire with a foolish love or admiration「以愚蠢的爱或赞美（崇拜、羡慕）来激励（启发）」。'

Name That Synonym

Unscramble the letters to create a synonym of fatuous meaning 'foolish': SSEENNTAI.