词汇释义
fatuous /ˈfætʃuəs/ TEM4TEM8 GRE
adj, If you describe a person, action, or remark as fatuous, you think that they are extremely silly, showing a lack of intelligence or thought. 愚蠢的，傻的，笨的
外刊例句
1. Just because we've had to live with the ghastly consequences of their fatuous, self-interested actions for the whole of our adult lives, that doesn't mean we're qualified to judge them.(The Guardian)
2. I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.(The Guardian - Opinion)
3. The anonymous "man" responsible for starting it appears in line one, and we imagine a tyrant, making a cruel and fatuous demand, as tyrants do: "Range me all men of the world in rows".(The Guardian - Books)
4. You'd never think you were in Leicestershire.'" But he has managed to raise his consciousness: "I have now realised what a fatuous remark this is.(The Guardian - Opinion)
5. Their victimhood is an invention like, it has to be said much of the rest of what passes for history in Scotland, from the romantic myths about kilts and tartan to the fatuous film "Braveheart".Andrew Wilson, a Scottish Nationalist member of the Scottish Parliament, says Scotland must lose its national chip if it is to rise above "mediocrity".(The Economist)
6. Using the Marxist label is as fatuous as bringing Hitler into any political discussion.(The Economist)
7. "The activists did a great job of scaring people about their food sources," sighs Norm McAllister, a farmer (and Republican state senator) who grows GM corn in Vermont.The fatuous fear of FrankenfoodsGenetic modification is one of the most promising tools for feeding a global population that will one day hit 9 or 10 billion.(The Economist)
8. That dark secret lies at the heart of "Pound Foolish", Helaine Olen's excellent book, a contemptuous exposé of the American personal-finance industry.With icy logic, Ms Olen, a journalist, demonstrates that much of the advice given by moneymaking gurus on television or in print is either fatuous or based on ridiculously optimistic assumptions about future investment returns.(The Economist)
9. The union is functioning as well (or as badly) as it did before French and Dutch voters rejected the constitution.The efforts by the Germans to use their stint in the EU president's chair to resuscitate the constitution may thus be as mistaken as the fatuous logo they have chosen (above).(The Economist)
10. The idea is wicked and fatuous in equal measure but also, as the economy liberalises, probably unworkable.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
fatuous + comment, grin, remark, love, idea,action, person
词汇来源
"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 PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say."
Related: Fatuously; fatuousness.
近义词
inane, childish, imbecilic, insipid, puerile, mindless, stupid, silly, foolish
反义词
intelligent, sensible, wise, sapient, sagacious
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