dummies

英 [ˈdʌmiz]

美 [ˈdʌmiz]

n.  (尤指缝制或陈列服装用的)人体模型; 仿制品; 仿造物; 笨蛋; 蠢货
dummy的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 人体模型,假人(常用于陈列服装)
  Adummyis a model of a person, often used to display clothes.
  1. ...the bottom half of a shop-window dummy.
     商店橱窗里假人模特的下半身
  2. ...the ventriloquist's dummy.
     表演口技用的傀儡
• N-COUNT 仿制品;仿造样品
  You can usedummyto refer to things that are not real, but have been made to look or behave as if they are real.
  1. Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists...
     高速公路旁将安装仿真巡逻车以威慑那些超速驾车者。
  2. They asked her to put together a dummy for a new magazine...
     他们让她为一本新杂志攒一份小样。
  3. Soldiers were still using dummy weapons because real guns were not yet available.
     士兵们还在用仿制的武器，因为还搞不到真家伙。
• (婴儿用的)橡皮奶嘴,橡皮奶头
  A baby'sdummyis a rubber or plastic object that you give the baby to suck so that he or she feels comforted.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 pacifier


• N-COUNT 笨蛋;蠢货
  If you call someone adummy, you mean that you think they are stupid.
  1. 'You're a dummy, Mack,' she yelled.
     “你是个蠢货,麦克。”她叫嚷着。
• (桥牌中的)明手牌
  Adummyordummy handis a hand of cards in a card game such as bridge or whist which is placed on the table so all the players can see it.

双语例句

• Outside they're all dummies.
  室外的摄像头都是假的。
• Great Wall, one of the biggest rising carmakers, has installed a state-of-the-art crash test facility at its plant in northern China, using equipment and dummies imported from the US.
  长城汽车（GreatWall）是中国最大的新兴汽车制造商之一。它利用从美国进口的设备和假人，在自己位于华北的工厂里安装了一套拥有最先进技术水平的碰撞测试装置。
• Animals or bread dummies had been substituted for the victim.
  动物或面包做的人体模型替代了供品。
• One day I would love to conduct an experiment by replacing the entire board of directors of a major corporation with shop dummies and see how well things go.
  我很想哪天做一个实验，用橱窗里的假人模特把一家大公司的整个董事会都替换掉，看看情况会怎样。
• So perhaps it's no surprise that the book Correct Spanish for Dummies was written by a Colombian.
  所以也难怪《正确西班牙语的傻瓜指南》这本书的作者是哥伦比亚人。
• He was shopping there with his wife, Lauren, back in 2009, when he decided to try mimicking the dummies as a joke.
  当时是2009年，他正和妻子劳伦逛街，突然他就决定开玩笑模仿服装模特的服饰和动作。
• To remedy this general Zhang ordered his men to make straw dummies and to dress them in black uniforms.
  为缓解危机，张将军命令部下做些稻草人，并给它们穿上黑色的制服。
• They just sat there like so many dummies.
  他们简直就像木头人似的坐在那里。
• Outside they are all dummies.
  外面的都是伪造品。
• Some dummies have spring loaded arms, so that the arms give realistically to pressure.
  有一些人偶具有弹性装置的手臂，这样它们手臂在打压过程中就更能增加真实感。