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单词 obtuse
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ob·tuse

adjective
/əbˈtjuːs/
/əbˈtuːs/
  1. (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
  2. [usually before noun] (geometry) (of an angle) between 90° and 180°钝的 compare acute (6)
  3. 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’.
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