Imbecile

(adj.) having a mental age of three to seven years .

乔安娜录入

• He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• That I caught a view of myself in a mirror, looking perfectly imbecile and idiotic. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• If I was once to sit down under it, I should become imbecile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Woman imbecile and pig-like! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• King George was far away in England, and sinking slowly towards an imbecile condition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I tell them that if I did restrain myself I should become imbecile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• However innocent he might be, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the circumstances were very black against him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• How dare you, she would ask herself--how dare you show your weakness and betray your imbecile anxieties? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Halliday hung motionless, an almost imbecile smile flickering palely on his face. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Her husband developed some hateful qualities; or shall we say that he contracted some loathsome disease, and became a leper or an imbecile? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You, imbeciles, where the lights are yonder, eating and drinking, and warming yourselves at fires! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A hospital for imbeciles! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

校对:贾斯廷