A dunce的意思|示意

Although I like to consider myself a reasonably intelligent chap, when it comes to maths, I am a dunce. At school I failed the O-Level.

尽管我习惯把自己当做是智力还算不错的人，一旦提到数学我就会变成蠢蛋了。上学的时候我连初级水平都没达到。

He does not know his letters, 'he said to his cousin.' Could you believe in the existence of such a colossal dunce?

“他不认识字，”他对他的表姐说。“你能相信会有这样的大笨蛋存在吗？”

The greatest novelist of the 19th Century, Sir Walter Scott, was given the title of "king of blockheads" and was made to wear a dunce cap for a whole month.

19世纪最伟大的小说家之一，沃尔特·斯科特先生，曾被人称为“傻子之王”，并被戴上了象征劣等生的帽子，整整戴了一个月。

Could you believe in the existence of such a colossal dunce?

“你能相信会有这样的大笨蛋存在吗？”“他一直就这样吗？”

In "school Blues" Daniel Pennac, a prize-winning French writer, describes what faces a school dunce when the teacher before him cannot recall what it felt like to be ignorant.

达尼埃尔·佩纳克，一位获奖的法国作家，则描述了学校里的差生的处境：他们的老师已忘记一无所知是什么滋味了。

I was a dunce at chemistry.

我在化学方面是个劣等生。