陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

astute/ fatuous/ folly/ imbecile/ judicious/ moron/ perspicacious/ preposterous/ sagacious/ scintillating/ shrewd/ vacuous

1. 「睿智的」、「明智的」、「腦筋清楚的」可用judicious、perspicacious（正式）或sagacious（文言），「才氣橫溢的」、「才思敏捷的」可用 scintillating：

•The judicious lovers know that they should not cling to each other at all times.

•Judicious parents encourage their children to have independent thinking.

•May's perspicacious father married her to an ordinary young man whom he believed would achieve great things in the end.

•The old gentleman has long been proved to be sagacious in his judgment.

•The scintillating and playful essayist, whom you pictured to yourself as the most genial and entertaining of companions, may turn out to be a shy and untalkable individual.

2. 「精明的」可用astute或shrewd：

•An astute investor would not run a risk like that.

•His mother is an astute businesswoman.

•Her astute handling of the situation avoided a violent conflict.

•The captain was a shrewd judge of character.

3. 「愚蠢的」可用fatuous或vacuous（正式），「不合常理的」、「荒謬至極的」可用preposterous，「愚蠢的行為」用folly：

•Robert is too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks.

•Please stop making those vacuous remarks.

•The excuse he presented was preposterous.

•The old man smiled sadly as he remembered the follies of his youth.

•Human follies are everywhere to be seen.

4. 「弱智者」叫imbecile，「非常蠢的人」、「笨蛋」可用moron（非正式）：

•The imbecile born in the rich family is taken good care of.

•Some moron broke my favorite cup yesterday.

•Stop doing that, you moron!

•Mr. Drucker says that the computer is a moron.