dummies

英 [ˈdʌmiz]

美 [ˈdʌmiz]

n.  (尤指缝制或陈列服装用的)人体模型; 仿制品; 仿造物; 笨蛋; 蠢货
dummy的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 人体模型,假人(常用于陈列服装)
  Adummyis a model of a person, often used to display clothes.
  1. ...the bottom half of a shop-window dummy.
     商店橱窗里假人模特的下半身
  2. ...the ventriloquist's dummy.
     表演口技用的傀儡
• N-COUNT 仿制品;仿造样品
  You can usedummyto refer to things that are not real, but have been made to look or behave as if they are real.
  1. Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists...
     高速公路旁将安装仿真巡逻车以威慑那些超速驾车者。
  2. They asked her to put together a dummy for a new magazine...
     他们让她为一本新杂志攒一份小样。
  3. Soldiers were still using dummy weapons because real guns were not yet available.
     士兵们还在用仿制的武器，因为还搞不到真家伙。
• (婴儿用的)橡皮奶嘴,橡皮奶头
  A baby'sdummyis a rubber or plastic object that you give the baby to suck so that he or she feels comforted.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 pacifier


• N-COUNT 笨蛋;蠢货
  If you call someone adummy, you mean that you think they are stupid.
  1. 'You're a dummy, Mack,' she yelled.
     “你是个蠢货,麦克。”她叫嚷着。
• (桥牌中的)明手牌
  Adummyordummy handis a hand of cards in a card game such as bridge or whist which is placed on the table so all the players can see it.

双语例句

• Still, there's never been a book called "Common Sense for Dummies," which would be required reading in my investment class if either existed.
  然而从没有人写一本类似于《傻瓜必备的常识》这样的书，我想如果我要开一门投资课程的话，这本书一定在必读书目中。
• As the dummies were thrown into the flames a sudden storm broke and sent everyone scampering for cover.
  四个肖像抛进火焰的时候，暴风雨突然降临，人人走避。
• That's a good question for the dummies in the lab.
  用实验室的假人做个实验会很好。
• If he dummies up, just try a little persuasion.
  如果他不说话，稍微劝劝他就是了。
• So perhaps it's no surprise that the book Correct Spanish for Dummies was written by a Colombian.
  所以也难怪《正确西班牙语的傻瓜指南》这本书的作者是哥伦比亚人。
• To delay knowledge of the escape, they made dummies out of sheets and pillowcases and left them in their beds.
  为了掩饰，他们还用被单和枕套做成了假人放在床铺上。
• They just sat there like so many dummies.
  他们简直就像木头人似的坐在那里。
• Recently, smaller crashtest dummies have also been used to represent children inside crashing cars.
  最近，较小的测试假人也投入了使用，以模拟车祸发生时坐在车内的儿童。
• Some dummies have spring loaded arms, so that the arms give realistically to pressure.
  有一些人偶具有弹性装置的手臂，这样它们手臂在打压过程中就更能增加真实感。
• Novel idea: He merely goes into stores, looks at what the dummies are wearing, and pops a matching outfit on in the fitting room.
  新奇的创意：他只是走进商店，看着服装模特穿的衣服，然后就突然产生了在更衣室换上和它们同款衣服进行模仿的想法。