| 词组 | dumb |
| 释义 | dumb Commentators as far apart as Utter 1916 and Harper 1985 have decried the use of dumb to mean stupid. In spite of the opposition of these commentators, the usage has become well established, even in writing: • He assured me that musical people, though singularly dumb, were so sexually depraved that we could acquire platoons of budding sopranos for the price of a Coke and a hamburger —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 The result of this sense's becoming established is that the "mute" sense of dumb has come to be considered offensive to those persons who cannot speak. The substitute usually recommended is mute. |
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