daft
英 [dɑːft]
美[dæft]
- adj. 癫狂的；愚笨的；狂闹的
- n. (Daft)人名；(英)达夫特
词态变化
比较级: dafter;最高级: daftest;名词: daftness;
助记提示
1. 谐音“打发他、打发的”----愚蠢的人是最好打发的。
中文词源
daft 愚蠢的
来自PIE*dhabh, 匹配，组装，词源同fabric. 原义为温和的，举止得体的，词源同deft. 后词义由温和的讽刺的过渡到笨拙的，愚蠢的。
英英释意
- 1. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular;
- "it used to drive my husband balmy"
英文词源
- daft
- daft: [13] Daft was not always a term of reproach. It originally meant ‘mild, gentle’, and only in late Middle English slid to ‘stupid’ (in a semantic decline perhaps paralleling that of silly, which started off as ‘happy, blessed’). Middle English dafte corresponds directly to an Old English gedæfte, whose underlying sense seems to have been ‘fit, suitable’ (the sense connection was apparently that mild unassuming people were considered as behaving suitably).
There is no direct evidence of its use with this meaning, but Old English had a verb gedæftan ‘make fit or ready, prepare’ which, together with the Gothic verb gedaban ‘be suitable’, points to its origin in a Germanic base *dab- ‘fit, suitable’. This ties in with the semantic development of deft, a variant of daft, which has moved from a prehistoric ‘fit, suitable’ to ‘skilful’.
=> deft - daft (adj.)
- Old English gedæfte "gentle, becoming," from Proto-Germanic *gadaftjaz (cognates: Old English daeftan "to put in order, arrange," gedafen "suitable;" Gothic gadaban "to be fit"), from PIE *dhabh- "to fit together" (see fabric). Sense of "mild, well-mannered" (c. 1200) led to that of "dull, awkward" (c. 1300). Further evolution to "foolish" (mid-15c.), "crazy" (1530s) probably was influenced by analogy with daffe "halfwit" (see daffy); the whole group probably has a common origin.
实用场景例句
- I can lose a few pounds without resorting to daft diets.
- 我不用疯狂地节食也能减轻几磅。
柯林斯例句
- "I found a mermaid."— 'Don't be daft. There's no such thing.'
- “我发现了一条美人鱼。”——“别说傻话了。哪有那种东西。”
柯林斯例句
- Don'tbe daft!
- 别傻了！
柯林斯例句
- "Aren't we daft?" she smiled.
- 她微笑着问：“我们不是很傻吗？”
柯林斯例句
- Don't be so daft!
- 别那么犯傻了！
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- What a daft thing to say!
- 怎么说这样的傻话!
《简明英汉词典》
- He's not so daft as to listen to rumours.
- 他不会蠢到去听信谣言的。
辞典例句
- It's daft to play football in the rain!
- 冒雨踢足球可真太傻了!
辞典例句
- He's gone a bit daft ( in the head ), ie He has become slightly insane.
- 他 ( 头脑 ) 有些发痴.
辞典例句
- The depth from waterline to vessel's bottom is called daft.
- 水线到船顶的浅度便吃火.
互联网
- In the middle age ,'Daft'were meant meek.
- 在中世纪, ‘ 达夫特’是可蔼,富有同情心的意思.
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- Sometimes, admittedly, reactions are fairly daft.
- 诚然,有时办法很愚蠢.
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- Daft a brush - On Paul Gascoigne, part one.
- 像刷子一样没脑袋 --- 评加扎时如是道.
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- Well that's daft, I must say!
- 依我看,那可太蠢了!
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- Tobin was a genius, but the Tobin tax was probably his one daft idea.
- 托宾是一位天才, 但托宾税大概是他唯一的蠢主意.
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