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Перевод: dunce

[существительное]
тупица [сл.] ; болван ; глупец ; неуспевающий ученик; долбоеб [неценз.] ; раздолбай [сл.]

Тезаурус:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Brian Dunce reports
5. 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.
6. A middle school in Beijing admired for its teaching of English will admit a dunce for the equivalent of 1,750.
7. 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.
8. Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus, who died in 1308, was no dunce - he was a leading church intellectual.
9. He was still the school dunce.
10. hopped in the playground, freed by a dunce,
11. 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?
12. THE man whose name inspired the word "dunce" is being made a saint.
13. Blessed is Friar Dunce