Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.

迈克尔在数学方面可能是个笨学生，但他在语言方面是有天赋的。

Do you take me for a dunce?

你以为我是笨蛋吗？

The dunce was easily taken in.

那笨蛋很容易就受骗了。

I was a dunce at chemistry.

我在化学方面是个劣等生。

Billy: It means good luck you dunce.

比利：意思就是祝你好运，呆子。

It is very impolite to call others a dunce.

叫别人蠢材是不礼貌的。

"dunce"is an insult that means stupid person.

是一种不太友好的称呼，意思是“愚蠢的家伙”。

He is beaten, spit upon and forced to wear a dunce cap.

他被暴打，被人往身上吐唾沫，被强迫戴上高帽。

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？”

Why, he always used to laugh at you as the dunce of the family!

哼，他总是取笑你，说你是家里的笨蛋！

In high school, I was always the dunce of the class and had to sit outside.

上中学的时候我一直是班里的呆子，不坐在外面。

When he changed his school to Brighton, his reputation as a dunce followed him.

当他转校到布赖顿时，他作为劣等生的名声也跟他一起到了那里。

It seems you would say I was too soft-hearted, If you made a dunce -cap I'd don it!

看来你会说我太心软，如果你犯了一个傻瓜帽，我穿上它！

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？”

When a true genius appear in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunce is all in confederacy against him.

当一个真正的天才出现于世上的时候，你可以从下列的迹象把他认出来—笨蛋们群起而反对他。

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。

In the mountains I understood why this man will never cheat and get himself a point when the ball was out. And Marat is not a dunce by nature.

在山区的时候我明白了为什么这个家伙从来不会在自己的球出界的时候欺骗别人。

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。

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。