dummy

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n. 傀儡, 假人, 仿制品 a. 虚设的, 假的, 名义上的

发音

AU /ˈdʌmi/
US /ˈdʌmi/

词形变化

dummies 复数 dummies dummied dummies 三单 dummying dummying 现在分词 dummied 过去式 dummied 过去分词 more dummy 比较级 most dummy 最高级

别名

dumbie dumby

教材释义与例句

名词

傀儡;哑巴;仿制品

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A silent person; a person who does not talk.

    过时
  2. 2.

    A stupid person.

    Don't be such a dummy!

  3. 3.

    A term of address.

    俚语 非裔美国英语

    Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?

  4. 4.

    A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

  5. 5.

    Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

    假人

    To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

  6. 6.

    A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.

  7. 7.

    A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

    The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

  8. 8.

    A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.

    澳大利亚 爱尔兰 新西兰 英国

    The baby wants her dummy.

  9. 9.

    A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

    游戏
  10. 10.

    A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

    语言学

    The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.

  11. 11.

    An unused parameter or value.

    计算机 工程 数学

    If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

  12. 12.

    A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

    体育 游戏
  13. 13.

    A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.

    英国 体育
  14. 14.

    A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.

    定语

    a dummy calf, lamb, or foal

  15. 15.

    A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.

    游戏
v.
  1. 1.

    To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

    The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.

  2. 2.

    To feint.

    体育
adv.
  1. 1.

    Extremely.

    美国 俚语

    It's dummy hot outside.

词汇关系

相关短语

词源

From dumb + -y. Pacifier sense from dummy teat where dummy is in the sense of a nonfunctional replica.

来源:wiktionary