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Перевод: dunce
[существительное]
тупица [сл.] ; болван ; глупец ; неуспевающий ученик; долбоеб [неценз.] ; раздолбай [сл.]
Тезаурус:
- The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia, Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a "window" of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size - rather as if a cone, a dunce's cap, the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite's geostationary orbit, had been set down over the ocean.
- In this phase of his life, at least, Reagan was regarded by many who knew him well, not as an "amiable dunce" but as a lively, intelligent man with an obsessive interest in politics.
- They called him a dunce at school, yet he knew all the words of the records on Sweetheart's wind-up gramophone, and every song Buddie's friends played when they got together with their instruments in the big downstairs room.
- Brian Dunce reports
- Brian Dunce's completed Oilbar paintings and cartoons together with other related works can be seen in the gallery in the basement of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square from April 11-;18.
- A middle school in Beijing admired for its teaching of English will admit a dunce for the equivalent of 1,750.
- Jonathan Stephenson's "Materials and Techniques" demonstration on pages 29-;32 shows how markers and brush pens can be used as sketching tools, while in "Talk of the Trade" on pages 40-;41 Jackie Simmonds, Doreen Roberts and Brian Dunce put various art materials to the test.
- Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus, who died in 1308, was no dunce - he was a leading church intellectual.
- He was still the school dunce.
- hopped in the playground, freed by a dunce,
- Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation, despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves, make him feel like pawn?
- THE man whose name inspired the word "dunce" is being made a saint.
- Blessed is Friar Dunce
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