Word · Frequency #9900
dummies
笨蛋；蠢货
dummies is the plural of dummy.
A stupid or foolish person.
- 1.
A stupid person.
愚蠢的人；傻瓜。
- 2.
a person who does not talk
不说话的人
- 3.
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
腹语者使用的人或动物的模型；木偶
- 4.
an ignorant or foolish person
愚蠢的人
- 5.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
按人体大小和形状制成、用于代替人的物品；人体模型。
- 6.
a figure representing the human form
人体模型
- 7.
A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
他人的工具；稻草人
- 8.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
故意不具功能的装置或工具
- 9.
A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
牌手的牌面展示并由另一玩家出牌
- 10.
A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
仅用于使结构符合语法的词
- 11.
An unused parameter or value.
未使用的参数或值
- 12.
A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
假动作传球、踢球或比赛以欺骗对手
- 13.
A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
对刺激无反应且不主动移动的新生动物
- 14.
A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
不能移动或吃子的仙灵棋子,但可以被吃并用于跳过移动其他棋子
人体模型；假人；（口技表演用的）假人；木偶；不说话的人；闷葫芦；假动作；假传；傀儡；受人操纵的人
In use
He stayed a dummy during the whole meeting, not uttering a single word.
Don't be a dummy; you should double-check the calculations yourself.
The tailor used a dummy to display the finished suit.
Connections
Collocations
- crash test dummy
- 碰撞测试假人
- Engineers placed a crash test dummy in the car to measure the force of the impact.工程师把碰撞测试假人放在车里，以测量冲击力。
- ventriloquist's dummy
- 腹语师的人偶
- The ventriloquist's dummy turned its head and seemed to speak to the audience.腹语师的人偶转过头来，似乎在对观众说话。
- tailor's dummy
- 裁缝用的人体模型
- A tailor's dummy is useful for shaping a suit, but it cannot show how the fabric moves on a real person.裁缝用的人体模型适合塑形西装，但它无法显示布料在真人身上的动态。
- dummy variable
- 虚拟变量；占位变量
- The regression includes a dummy variable for gender, coded 0 for male and 1 for female.该回归包含一个性别虚拟变量，男性编码为0，女性编码为1。
- dummy subject
- 形式主语；虚位主语
- In 'It rains', 'it' is a dummy subject because it has no concrete meaning.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想读音像“呆米”：呆立不动的假人模型，以及呆头呆脑的人，都叫 dummy。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：日常口语、商店陈列、影视拍摄 作“笨蛋”讲时多用于非正式口语，语气较强；作“人体模型/假人”讲时是中性用法，常见于商店橱窗、摄影或训练场景。具体含义需看语境。
Pronunciation & Spelling
以上单词均以 -ummy 结尾，读作 /ʌmi/，与 dummy 押韵。注意：bunny、sunny、funny 等以 -unny 结尾的词拼写相近，但读作 /ʌni/，并不押韵。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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