fool1 /fuːl/ ●●○ noun 1 stupid person 蠢人 [countableC]STUPID/NOT SENSIBLE a stupid person or someone who has done something stupid 蠢人,傻子,笨蛋 SYN idiot What a fool she had been to think that he would stay. 她竟然那么傻,以为他会留下来。
Like a fool, I accepted straight away. 我像个傻子,立刻就接受了。
You silly old fool! 你这个大傻瓜!
2 make a fool of yourself STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEto do something stupid that you feel embarrassed about afterwards and that makes you seem silly 使自己出丑 Sorry I made such a fool of myself last night. I must have been drunk. 对不起,昨天晚上我太失态了,我一定是喝醉了。
make a fool of yourself• I met Sylvester Stallone one time and made a complete fool of myself.• I have made a fool of myself.• Your biggest fear is probably the fear of making a fool of yourself and this is what is making you nervous.• Athletes will seldom make fools of themselves for the press.• The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety.• One thing Congress apparently can do in a bipartisan spirit is to make a fool of itself.• A true cat is often willing to make a fool of herself, but only on her own terms.• She had truly made a fool of herself.• And why should you make a fool of yourself now by trying? 3 make a fool of somebody to deliberately do something to make someone else seem stupid 愚弄某人,使某人显得愚蠢 I suddenly realised that I was being made a fool of. 我突然明白过来,我被人耍了。
make a fool of somebody• People got tired of interviewing him because they felt they were being made fools of.• We were dreary and would have made fools of ourselves.• Has my host made a fool of me?• Your biggest fear is probably the fear of making a fool of yourself and this is what is making you nervous.• The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety.• One thing Congress apparently can do in a bipartisan spirit is to make a fool of itself.• And Jeffries then proceeded to make a fool of Marshak by never again producing a single scholarly work.• Why did you try to make a fool of me in public?• And why should you make a fool of yourself now by trying? 4 any fool can do something spokenEASYEVERYONE used to say that it is very easy to do something or to see that something is true 傻瓜都会做某事,任何人都会做某事〔用于表示某事很简单〕 Any fool could have seen what would happen. 傻瓜都看得出来将会发生什么事。
5 be no/nobody’s fool INTELLIGENTto be difficult to trick or deceive, because you have a lot of experience and knowledge about something 不会轻易上当,为人精明,不是傻瓜 Katherine was nobody’s fool when it came to money. 凯瑟琳在钱的问题上一点也不傻。
be no/nobody’s fool• Perhaps he was, she was nobody's fool.
6. gooseberry/strawberry etc fool British EnglishBrEDFF a sweet food made of soft cooked fruit mixed with cream 奶油醋栗泥/草莓泥等gooseberry/strawberry etc fool• If serving the gooseberry fool on its own, add a little extra sugar to taste. 7 more fool you/him etc British EnglishBrE spokenSTUPID/NOT SENSIBLE used to say that you think someone was stupid to do something, and it is their own fault if this causes trouble 这是你自己傻/他自己傻等 ‘Jim smashed up my car.’ ‘More fool you for letting him borrow it!’ “吉姆把我的车撞坏了。”“你自己傻呀,把车借给他开!”
8. not suffer fools gladly if you say that someone doesn’t suffer fools gladly, they do not have any patience with people who they think are stupid 对蠢人没有耐心 9. be living in a fool’s paradise TRICK/DECEIVEto feel happy and satisfied, and believe there are no problems, when in fact this is not true 陶醉在幻想之中,做黄粱美梦 10 play/act the fool STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEto behave in a silly way, especially in order to make people laugh 做傻事,瞎胡闹;装傻,逗人笑 Stop playing the fool! You’ll fall. 别胡闹了!你会摔倒的。
play/act the fool• Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can.• Those on the path of mastery are willing to take chances, play the fool...• But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them.• Narouz had been angry, first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her.• Don't go acting the fool, Carl.• He acted the fool, losing at first to whet their appetites, but in an hour emptied his three victims' purses.• In class he never played the fool, never challenged the teacher.• Don't play the fool with me. You know why I moved away.• He likes me to play the fool. 11. (send somebody on) a fool’s errand STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEto make someone go somewhere or do something for no good reason (派某人去做)徒劳无益的事 12. fools rush in (where angels fear to tread) used to say that people are stupid if they do something immediately without thinking about it first 傻瓜急不可待(,智者三思后行) 13. a fool and his money are soon parted used to say that stupid people spend money quickly without thinking about it 蠢人不积财 14. entertainer 表演者 [countableC]AP a man whose job was to entertain a king or other powerful people in the past, by doing tricks, singing funny songs etc 〔旧时供国王或其他权势人物娱乐的〕弄臣,小丑 SYN jester → April fool