ob·tuse
adjective/əbˈtjuːs/
/əbˈtuːs/
- (formal, disapproving) slow or unwilling to understand something
迟钝的;愚蠢的;态度勉强的 - Are you being deliberately obtuse?
你是不是故意装傻? - Perhaps I’m being obtuse, but what has all this got to do with me?
也许是我太迟钝了,但这一切与我有什么关系呢? - He was either completely ignorant or being wilfully obtuse.
他要么完全无知,要么故意迟钝。 - She was the most obtuse person I’d ever met.
她是我见过的最迟钝的人。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryObtuse is used with these nouns:- angle
- Are you being deliberately obtuse?
- [usually before noun] (geometry) (of an angle) between 90° and 180°
compare acute (6)钝的
Word Originlate Middle English (referring to something that is blunt): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere ‘beat against’, from ob- ‘against’ + tundere ‘to beat’.