dunce

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n. 智力迟钝的学生, 傻瓜

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dunces 复数 dunces

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n.
  1. 1.

    An unintelligent person.

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1530, named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). Scotus was ironically a well-known Scottish thinker; his followers, however, opposed the philosophers of the Renaissance, and thus "dunce" was first used to describe someone rejecting new knowledge in 1530; later, any person deemed stupid.

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