SESsomeone who is slow at learning things 〔学习〕迟钝的人,愚笨的人
the dunce of the class
这个班上的笨学生
Examples from the Corpus
dunce• But women could be dunces too, in McCarthy's eyes.• And this, for golfingdunces, is one of the joys.• But because they looked like such retardeddunces, and women saw right through them.• He was still the school dunce.• My flaky judgments were modest by comparison-but numerous enough to keep me hopeful of regaining the duncecap this year.• It shows just what dunces the Tories are when it comes to education.
Origindunce
(1500-1600) John Duns Scotus (1266?-1308), Scottish religious thinker