slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
\\\"so dense he never understands anything I say to him\\\"
\\\"never met anyone quite so dim\\\"
\\\"although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick\\\"
\\\"dumb officials make some really dumb decisions\\\"
\\\"he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse\\\"
\\\"worked with the slow students\\\"
temporarily incapable of speaking;
\\\"struck dumb\\\"
\\\"speechless with shock\\\"
lacking the power of human speech;
\\\"dumb animals\\\"
unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
She\\\'s been dumb from birth. 她生來就是啞巴。
It was dumb of you to say that. 你說那種話真是太愚蠢了。
She was unfairly caricatured as a dumb blonde. 她被不公正地丑化成了一個傻頭傻腦的金發(fā)女郎。
He was struck dumb by her sharp question. 他被她那尖銳的問題弄得啞口無言。
We were struck dumb with horror and grief. 驚恐和憂傷使我們啞口無言。
常用短語
用作形容詞 (adj.)
～+名詞
dumb mistake
愚蠢的錯誤
dumb show
啞劇
～+介詞
dumb from
從…就啞
dumb on
保持沉默
dumb with
發(fā)不出聲來
組詞
Its thunder made the cataracts dumb.
出自：Shelley
The streets are dumb with snow.
出自：Tennyson
Having to translate his work into dumbed-down metaphors for the shiny-shoe set.