- [countable]
a model of a person, used especially when making clothes or for showing them in a shop window (尤指缝制或陈列服装用的)人体模型 a tailor’s dummy 裁缝店的模型人 a ventriloquist’s dummy 表演口技用的傀儡
- [countable]
a thing that seems to be real but is only a copy of the real thing 仿制品;仿造物 The bottles of whisky on display are all dummies. 陈列的一瓶瓶威士忌全是仿制品。
- [countable] (North American English, informal)
a stupid person Topics Personal qualitiesc2笨蛋;蠢货 - [countable]
(in some sports )某些体育运动 an occasion when you pretend to make a particular move and then do not do so 假动作 - [countable] (British English) (North American English pacifier, Binky™)
a rubber or plastic object with a special shape that a baby sucks on with its lips and tongue Topics Life stagesc2安抚奶嘴 - [uncountable]
(in card games, especially bridge )纸牌游戏,尤指桥牌 the cards that are placed facing upwards on the table and which can be seen by all the players 明手牌 She played a jack from dummy. 她从明手摊出的牌中打出一张J。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from dumb + -y. The original sense was ‘a person who cannot speak’, then ‘an imaginary fourth player in whist’ (mid 18th cent.), whence ‘a substitute for the real thing’ and ‘a model of a human being’ (mid 19th cent.).