• n. 傻瓜；劣學生

來自13世紀蘇格蘭神學家John Duns Scotus, 其思想后來遭到反對者強烈批判，其追隨者也被諷刺為笨蛋，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.

1. He used to be a dunce at school.

他上學時曾是個笨學生.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.

邁克爾在數學上可能不太靈光，但在語言方面很有天賦。

來自柯林斯例句

3. I was a dunce at chemistry.

我在化學方面是個劣等生.

來自辭典例句

4. It is very impolite to call others a dunce.

叫別人蠢材是不禮貌的.

來自互聯網

5. Do you take me for a dunce?

你以為我是笨蛋 嗎 ?

來自互聯網