dunce

英 [dʌns] 美[dʌns]

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复数: dunces;

Dunce: dun（拼音“钝”）死。迟钝得要死----笨人。
2. 谐音“钝厮、钝死”。

dunce 愚笨的人

来自13世纪苏格兰神学家John Duns Scotus, 其思想后来遭到反对者强烈批判，其追随者也被讽刺为笨蛋，傻瓜。

dunce: dunce: [16] Dunce originated as a contemptuous term for those who continued in the 16th century to adhere to the theological views of the Scottish scholar John Duns Scotus (c. 1265–1308). Renaissance philosophers ridiculed them as narrow-minded hair-splitters, and so before long the application of the word spread metaphorically to any ‘stuffy pedant’ in general, and hence, through the implication of a lack of true intellect, to ‘stupid person’. The conical dunce’s cap seems to have originated in the 19th century.
dunce (n.): "dullard," 1570s, from earlier Duns disciple "follower of John Duns Scotus" (c. 1265-1308), Scottish scholar of philosophy and theology supposed to have been born at Duns in Berwickshire. By 16c., humanist reaction against medieval theology singled him out as the type of the hairsplitting scholastic. It became a general term of reproach applied to more conservative philosophical opponents by 1520s, later extended to any dull-witted student.

Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.: 迈克尔在数学上可能不太灵光，但在语言方面很有天赋。

The wise man knows he knows nothing; the dunce thinks he knows all.: 聪明人知道自己不懂什么, 蠢人则认为自己什么都懂.

When he changed his school to Brighton, his reputation as a dunce followed him.: 当他转校到布赖顿时, 他作为劣等生的名声也跟他一起到了那里.

In high school, I was always the dunce of the class and had to sit outside.: 上中学的时候我一直是班里的呆子,不得不坐在外面.

Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.: 迈克尔在数学上可能不太灵光，但在语言方面很有天赋。