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【记】fat + tu 音：土→又肥又土→愚昧形象
中文词源
fatuous 愚蠢的
来自拉丁语fatuus, 愚蠢的，无味的。可能进一步来自PIE*bhat, 击，打，词源同beat, batten. 委婉语，脑子出问题的。
英语词源
- fatuous
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fatuous: see fade
- fatuous (adj.)
- "foolish, stupid," 1530s, from Latin fatuus "foolish, insipid, silly;" which is of uncertain origin. Buck suggests originally "stricken" in the head. But de Vaan says from Proto-Italic *fatowo- "of speech," from the PIE root of fame (n.).
[I]f we connect the fact that Fatuus is said to be an alternative name for Faunus, and that he predicted the future, and that this god is attested on an Etruscan mirror as Fatuvs in a clear oracular function (Weiss 2007b), we may venture a derivation from forfor 'to say' (Untermann 2000). The name of the god would then have come to be used pejoratively as 'silly'. [de Vaan]
Related: Fatuously; fatuousness.
权威例句
- 1. The Chief was left speechless by this fatuous remark.
- 这句傻话让主任一时说不出话来。
- 2. What a fatuous remark!
- 多么愚蠢的话 呀 !
- 3. Why did the fatuous King send him into exile?
- 昏庸的楚王为什么把屈原流放了?
- 4. Television commercials seem more smug and fatuous than ever.
- 电视的广告似乎比以前更沾沾自喜和愚蠢.
- 5. He seems to take pride in fatuous remarks.
- 说起这番蠢话来,他似乎还挺得意.
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