silly的意思|silly的解释-里氏词典

silly ['sili]

a. 愚蠢的, 糊涂的

silly
sillier, silliest

[ noun ]

a word used for misbehaving children

<noun.person>

don't be a silly

[ adj ]

ludicrous, foolish

<adj.all>

gave me a cockamamie reason for not going

wore a goofy hat

a silly idea

some wacky plan for selling more books

lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

<adj.all>

a dizzy blonde

light-headed teenagers

silly giggles

inspiring scornful pity

<adj.all>

how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years

dazed from or as if from repeated blows

<adj.all>

knocked silly by the impact

slaphappy with exhaustion

Silly \Sil"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sillier}; superl. {Silliest}.] [OE.
seely, sely, AS. s?lig, ges?lig, happy, good, fr. s?l, s?l,
good, happy, s?l good fortune, happines; akin to OS.
s[=a]lig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG.
s[=a]l[=i]g, Icel. s?l, Sw. s["a]ll, Dan. salig, Goth. s?ls
good, kind, and perh. also to L. sollus whole, entire, Gr.
???, Skr. sarva. Cf. {Seel}, n.]
1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

2. Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. [Obs.] ``This silly,
innocent Custance.'' --Chaucer.

The silly virgin strove him to withstand. --Spenser.

A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).

3. Weak; helpless; frail. [Obs.]

After long storms . . .
With which my silly bark was tossed sore. --Spenser.

The silly buckets on the deck. --Coleridge.

4. Rustic; plain; simple; humble. [Obs.]

A fourth man, in a sillyhabit. --Shak.

All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
--Milton.

5. Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind;
foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.

6. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment;
characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd;
stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Syn: Simple; brainless; witless; shallow; foolish; unwise;
indiscreet. See {Simple}.

An amazing amount of people thought this was a crummy idea or that I and the others supporting it were silly.
Thought for today: "People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust." _ E.B. White, American author and humorist (1899-1985).
But there is no doubt that names can be either silly or apparently inappropriate and still remain world famous and popular.
The excuses offered for failing to learn from these experiences range from the serious to the silly.
Flee into the night, certainly - which is what I did after 85 minutes of tenth-rate rock, frenetically silly movement, and even more desperate inadequacy of dance ideas.
Larson, who has said in the past that he sits down at his drawing table and "gets silly," is famous for cartoons about cows that honk at humans, dinosaurs that smoke and woman with beehive hairdos.
It was a silly thought.
"The Blue Book is overly complicated with a lot of silly and unnecessary rules," says Mark Snyderman, executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
He's willing to take some chances to make money, even try something a little silly, like selling coins over the telephone.
Kimberly Graves and Richardo Costa were spellbinding, never looking silly.
One must suppose that this nonsense is supposed to send the speculators who have the pound on the floor rushing for cover, and so permit a cut in interest rates, rather than make himself look silly; but it does not matter much.
Its articles were often stupid, silly and boring.
Last night, he said his resignations were because a 'silly and regrettable' affair with a female colleague while on a professional trip to Brazil, had become public knowledge.
"I declined to use the pictures in my story because I thought it was silly, because I didn't think it had anything to do with his qualifications to be president," Schieffer said.
Former President Carlos Andres Perez says the United States would look silly if it were to drop drug charges against Gen.
How silly of me: of course it does. From all this earnest company, Dhruva Mistry stands apart, the one sculptor allowed to acknowledge the wider tradition of the figure and the humane response, ancient Indian at one with modern and European.
The lighting is drab, the creatures are silly and the plot momentum - well, there isn't any. Burroughs's book had a point.
"Then I figured it was silly." Airlines and travel agents are concerned, however.
The same sonorous pastels float through his huge paintings looming over the Met's bar and restaurant, where you can drink yourself silly getting through an evening like this one.
But Mr. Fowler, who says he isn't angry about his party, says some of the rulings "are starting to make the agency look silly."
Asking Hong Kong to revalue is especially silly because its pegged system has made it virtually another branch of the Federal Reserve System.
It may look silly yet again if the property market continues to fall, though the existing provision covers a quarter of its remaining exposure. Besides, there are some more immediate consequences.
"We used to be able to make silly proposals, like the zero option, knowing they'd be rejected," says a top French official.
And I'm impelled to praise it With silly prose and rhymes, For I have now been counted No less than five times.
Many of these funds have been quite profitable, despite predictions by some finance professionals that using social criteria for screening investments is silly and risky.
When television came to Brazil in the 1960s, Barbosa became a legend with a amateur show called "Chacrinha's Horn." His nonsense slogans and silly rhymes caught on throughout the country.
The most risque jokes in the collection gently suggest that another nation might be just a tiny bit silly. Funnier than some of the cracks is the commentary that goes with them.
For all I know, Vermont has made a silly rule: Vermont Supreme Court Justice Louis Peck may combine the wisdom of Socrates and Solomon.
Wear a silly hat and bring a pewter tankard. Edinburgh TDK Round Midnight 31 Aug - 4 Sept (031) 557 4446 Between them, Glasgow and Edinburgh host an indecent amount of top class jazz.
The best way to keep yourself young is to scare yourself silly _ or so Paul Newman says.

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