booby

UK:  ['buːbi]

US:  ['bubi]

复数：boobies  

n.

1.傻瓜;鲣鸟

2.呆子,蠢材

3.成绩最差的运动员

4.得分最少者

5.〔动〕鲣鸟(生长在暖海的一种潜水海鸟)

6.得分最少的球队;演出最差的歌舞队

7.【鸟类】鲣鸟

1 . Now watch this finch figure out exactly how much damage it can do to the booby without getting tossed off.
现在看本·芬奇找出究竟有多大的伤害，它能做得不到中排慢吞吞。

2 . It now dawned on Harry, however, that the cup of cold tea on which he had trodden that morning might not have been a booby trap at all.
然而，现在哈利开始认为那天早上他踩到的那杯凉茶也许根本就不是一个傻子的圈套。

3 . She was, as she put it once, a booby who only wanted to soar.
正如她曾经说的，她是一只想要高飞的笨鸟。

4 . In reality the animals and flowers in "Immortality" seem to be booby-trapped, framed as objects of 'beauty'.
在现实中，动物和花朵的「不朽」，就像一个陷阱，被喻为「美」的象徵。

5 . and his assiduous research among those friends who shared life on the boat humanises the later Hemingway's image as a bullying old booby.
而作者的对那些与海明威在船上共同生活过的朋友的研究，也使他这个恃强欺弱，顽固不化的老头儿形象生动了。