• adj. 愚笨的；昏庸的；發(fā)呆的；自滿的

來自拉丁語fatuus, 愚蠢的，無味的?？赡苓M一步來自PIE*bhat, 擊，打，詞源同beat, batten. 委婉語，腦子出問題的。

fatuous

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.

1. The Chief was left speechless by this fatuous remark.

這句傻話讓主任一時說不出話來。

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2. What a fatuous remark!

多么愚蠢的話 呀 !

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3. Why did the fatuous King send him into exile?

昏庸的楚王為什么把屈原流放了?

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4. Television commercials seem more smug and fatuous than ever.

電視的廣告似乎比以前更沾沾自喜和愚蠢.

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5. He seems to take pride in fatuous remarks.

說起這番蠢話來,他似乎還挺得意.

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