fool

cheat, deceive, trick, fool

名词 fool:

1. a person who lacks good judgment
   同义词：sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool
2. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
   同义词：chump, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug
3. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
   同义词：jester, motley fool

动词 fool:

1. make a fool or dupe of
   同义词：gull, befool
2. spend frivolously and unwisely
   同义词：fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool away
3. fool or hoax
   同义词：gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, put on, take in, put one over, put one across
4. indulge in horseplay
   同义词：horse around, arse around, fool around

1. I was meant to be working on Sunday, but I just fooled around all day.
   星期日我本应工作的，但却闲混了一整天。
2. I was only fooling when I said I'd lost your keys.
   我说把你的钥匙丢了，只是逗你玩的。
3. He has fooled a lot of people into believing he is a rich man.
   他骗了许多人，让人相信他是个富翁。
4. What a fool I was to believe he is a good man.
   我竟然相信他是个好人，我真是个傻瓜。
5. That silly child never does anything; he just fools about all day long.
   那个傻孩子从来不做事，只是整天游手好闲。

fool

n.（名词）
One who is regarded as deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
蠢人，白痴：被认为缺乏判断、感觉或理解力的人
One who acts unwisely on a given occasion:
傻子：在一特定时刻做事不明智的人：
例句：
I was a fool to have refused the job.
我真傻，拒绝了那项工作

One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe:
容易受骗的人：受愚弄的人或弄得看起来可笑的人；易受骗的人：
例句：
They made a fool of me by pretending I won the award.
他们骗我假装得了奖金而愚弄我

Informal A person with a talent or an enthusiasm for a certain activity:
【非正式用语】 对某活动热爱的人：对某项活动具有天才或热情的人：
例句：
a dancing fool; a fool for skiing.
舞迷；滑冰迷

A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
弄臣，宫廷小丑：一些皇室或贵族家庭成员，他们提供娱乐如讲笑话或表演滑稽动作；小丑
A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.
奶油拌水果：一种甜点，由炖水果和冰淇淋或牛奶蛋糊和冰冻混合成
Archaic A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
【古语】 白痴：智力缺陷的人；傻瓜
v.（动词）
fooled,fool.ing,fools
v.tr.（及物动词）
To deceive or trick; dupe:
蒙骗或愚弄；欺骗：
例句：
.trying to learn how to fool a trout with a little bit of floating fur and feather.(Charles Kuralt)
.试着学习如何用一点的皮毛和羽毛来引鳟鱼上钩.(查尔斯·库拉尔特)

To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly:
使混淆，使惊喜：混淆或证明错误；惊奇，尤其是高兴地：
例句：
We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.
我们确信他们将失败，但他们却使我们惊喜

v.intr.（不及物动词）
Informal
【非正式用语】
To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke:
滑稽表演，开玩笑：滑稽地或诙谐地说或做；开玩笑：
例句：
I was just fooling when I said you couldn`t have any of my candy.
我说你不能拿我的糖，那是在开玩笑

To behave comically; clown.
举止滑稽；扮小丑
To feign; pretend:
假装；伪装：
例句：
He said he had a toothache but it turned out he was only fooling.
他说他牙疼，但结果他只是在伪装

To engage in idle or frivolous activity.
干蠢事：涉及无用或琐碎的行动
To toy, tinker, or mess:
玩弄，粗劣修补，混乱：
例句：
shouldn`t fool with matches.
不能乱玩火柴

adj.Informal （形容词）【非正式用语】
Foolish; stupid:
傻的；愚蠢的：
例句：
off on some fool errand or other.
出去干一些愚蠢的差事

<常用词组>fool around 【非正式用语】
To engage in idle or casual activity; putter:
干一些无聊或随便的事；懒散地工作：
例句：
was fooling around with some figures in hopes of balancing the budget.
懒散地算着数字，希望能平衡开支

To engage in frivolous activity; make fun.
做轻浮的事；开玩笑
To engage in casual, often promiscuous sexual acts.
滥交：从事随意，常是乱搞性行为
fool away
To waste (time or money) foolishly; squander:
愚蠢地浪费（时间或钱）；挥霍：
例句：
fooled away the week`s pay on Friday night.
周五晚上花掉了整个星期的工资

<习惯用语>play the fool 或
act the fool
To act in an irresponsible or foolish manner.
出丑：以愚蠢而不负责任的表现
To behave in a playful or comical manner.
以滑稽，玩笑的方式行动
来源：
Middle English fol
中古英语 fol
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Late Latin follis [windbag, fool]
源自 后期拉丁语 follis [空谈家，愚人]
from Latin follis [bellows] * see bhel- 2
源自 拉丁语 follis [风箱] *参见 bhel- 2

<注释>The pejorative nature of the termfool is only strengthened by a knowledge of its etymology. Its source, the Latin wordfollis, meant .a bag or sack, a large inflated ball, a pair of bellows.. Users of the word in Late Latin, however, saw a resemblance between the bellows or the inflated ball and a person who was what we would call .a windbag. or .an airhead..The word, which passed into English by way of French,is first recorded in English in a work written around the beginning of the 3th centurywith the sense .a foolish, stupid, or ignorant person..
词语fool 的轻蔑性质只有用它的语源知识才能体会深刻。 它的词源，拉丁词fillis 意思是.一个袋子，一个大的充气球，一对风箱.。 然而在后期拉丁语中此词使用者发现一个风箱或充气球与一个我们称为.空谈者.或.自大者.之间有相似之处。这个词通过法语传入英语，在英语中最早记录在一本写于大约为3世纪初的书中，意思是.笨的，傻的或愚昧的人.