dopey

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dop·ey (also dopy British EnglishBrE) /ˈdəʊpi $ ˈdoʊpi/ adjectiveadj informal

1 MDthinking or reacting slowly, as if you have taken a drug 昏昏沉沉的，迷迷糊糊的

She’s still a little dopey from the anaesthetic.

由于麻醉药的作用，她还有点昏昏沉沉的。

2 STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEslightly stupid 迟钝的，呆笨的

a dopey grin

咧开嘴的傻笑

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dopey• See, he boarded with this woman and her husband in Ambler, and the husband was kind of dopey.• Danny relied on a dopey and familiar joke to produce a comic dialogue about deflating muscles.• I feel really dopey, and I've had a headache all day.• Beyond that, it promises to provide a weekly primer on dopey and unctuous behavior among upscale hillbillies who dress well.• Although the group still stressed positivity, there was nothing here of the dopey, grinning hippie stereotype of a year before.• What is it that makes politicians do such dopey things?

none of the seven dwarfs in the story of snow white, called Dopey because he is rather stupid

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