1.silly的基本意思是“傻的,糊涂的”,通常指由于缺乏常识、判断力或稳健而作出令人可笑的行为和举止,在句中可用作定语或表语。
2.silly也可作“不省人事的,失去知觉的”解,常用作宾语补足语。
3.当以动词不定式充当句子主语时,通常采用以it作形式主语的结构,该动词不定式的逻辑主语须由介词of引出。
play silly beggars
非常愚蠢; 有意使麻烦 behave in a foolish manner, or deliberately annoy
Stop playing silly beggars and give me my pen back.不要干这蠢事了,把钢笔还给我。
My solicitor has still not returned the contract; I wish she would stop playing silly beggars and get on with it.我的律师还未将合同还给我,我希望她不要有意拖延,尽快将这事办好。
用作定语
▲~+n.
She is a silly young girl who doesn't know her own mind.她是一个没有主见的傻姑娘。
Ask a silly question and get a silly answer.问得傻,答得蠢。
That's the silliest idea I've ever heard!那是我所听到过最愚蠢的想法。
Your silly remarks are a reflection on your common sense.你讲的这番蠢话会使人认为你连起码的常识都没有。
We could not conceive that they would do such a silly thing.我们不能想象他们竟会干这种傻事。
You're nearly twenty, yet you keep saying silly things like that.It's time you cut your eyeteeth.你已经快二十岁了,还老是说出那样傻乎乎的话来,该是懂事的时候了。
Progressing to your next point,I think we may safely forget such a silly idea.倘若我们转入你的下一个论点,我想我们会把这样一个愚蠢的看法抛在脑后的。
I had a bellyful of your silly advice.你的糊涂意见我实在听够了。
That silly woman gushed over every new actress that she met.那个可笑的女人热情地称赞每一位她所遇到的新来的女演员。
You can't be excused for such a silly reason.不能因为这样一个可笑的理由而原谅你。
That one silly error reflects upon his integrity as a solicitor.那个唯一可笑的错误使这个律师名誉扫地。
用作表语
▲S+be+~
Don't be silly!别傻了!
The book's title is silly, but it was really a serious study.书的名字尽管是可笑的,但那的确是本严肃的作品。
▲S+be+~to-v
I was silly to go out in the cold without a coat.我真傻,大冷天没穿外套就出门了。
▲It is/was+~+(of sb+)to-v
It's silly to spend money just to keep up appearances.仅仅为了撑面子而那样花钱是愚蠢的。
I think we'd be silly to fly in the face of public opinion.我认为我们悍然无视舆论是愚蠢的。
It was silly of you to trust him.你居然相信他,真傻。
用作宾语补足语
▲S+V+O+~
I took a swing at him and knocked him silly.我挥拳打了他一下,把他打得晕头转向。
After-dinner speeches bore me silly.宴会后的演讲使我非常厌烦。
Her husband often drinks himself silly.她丈夫经常喝酒喝得醉醺醺的。
silly, absurd, fatuous, foolish, ridiculous, stupid
参见absurd条。
你犯这样的错误,真太糊涂了。
[误] It was silly for you to make such a mistake.
[正] It was silly of you to make such a mistake.
[析] silly常用于It is/was silly of sb to-v的结构中,表示“做…的事的人是很傻的”。在这种句型中,不能用介词for代替of引出逻辑主语。
silly在非正式语体中可作名词,意思是“傻瓜,笨蛋”。例如:
No, silly,I didn't mean that!不,傻瓜,我不是那个意思!
[派生词] silliness n. 糊涂,可笑
[同义词] childish, foolish, stupid
[反义词] rational, sensible, smart, wise
[词源] <古英语sælig(幸福,快乐) <中古英语sely(天真的,可怜的)
