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numskull n.〔口語〕笨蛋;笨腦瓜。

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A body might stump his toe , and take pison , and fall down the well , and break his neck , and bust his brains out , and somebody come along and ask what killed him , and some numskull up and say , why , he stumped his toe . would ther be any sense in that ? no 一個人也可能最早先碰痛了大拇腳趾,隨后吃了毒藥,又掉到了井里,扭壞了脖子,摔壞了腦子,有人出來問起此人怎么死的,可是一個蠢家伙卻出來說啊,他碰傷了大拇腳趾。

I ve taken a notion into my old numskull , observed silver . here s the compass ; there s the tip - top pint o skeleton island , stickin out like a tooth “我這個死腦瓜骨看出點門道來了, ”西爾弗說, “這有羅盤,那是骷髏島的岬角尖,像顆牙似的支出來。

Well , i never see the beat of it in my born days ! i lay you ll be the methusalem - numskull of creation before ever i ask you - or the likes of you . 我請你,你等著吧,等到你活成千年怪物糊涂蛋或者這么一類活寶,我也不會請你啊。 ”

I dined , myself while those numskulls were deliberating which world you should belong to - this , or some other 那些傻瓜們在研究你應該屬于哪個世界時,我已經吃過飯了。

“ hadn t any aunt ! - you numskull “你說什么,它沒有姨媽!

Tom sawyer said i was a numskull 湯姆索亞說我真是個呆腦殼。

“ you numskull , didn t you see me count m ? “你這糊涂蟲,你剛才不是看著我數的么? ”