【每日一词】obtuse - /əbˈtuːs/ adj.
1 : a -not pointed or acute : blunt 圆头的；不锋利的；迟钝的；b - (1) of an angle : exceeding 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees （几何）钝角的，大于90°小于180°的 (2): having an obtuse angle
an obtuse triangle c of a leaf : rounded at the free end.
2a : lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : insensitive, stupid （形容人）迟钝的，愚钝的 // He is too obtuse to take a hint. ;
b: difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression （形容事物）难懂的，不清楚的 //It is also, unfortunately, ill-written, and at times obtuse and often trivial. —Shirley Hazzard
短语
obtuse angle: 钝角；光钝角
obtuse triangle: 钝角三角形；钝三角形；钝角三角学形；钝三角
obtuse-angled triangle: 钝角三角形
Nitellopsis obtuse: 钝节拟丽藻
obtuse frog: 钝角辙叉
insightful obtuse: 富有洞察力的；有见识的；富于洞察力的；有眼光的
obtuse angle blade: 钝角叶片
obtuse marginal branch: 钝缘支；左缘支
例句
Are you being deliberately obtuse? 你是不是故意装傻？
I've been waiting for you to ask me the question yourself, and you're being obtuse and slow about it. 我一直在等你亲自问我这个问题，而你对此一直迟钝缓慢。
She answered me like the obtuse child she decided I was. 她当即觉得我愚钝不可教，但还是回答了我
Murdoch's art, like all good art, is highly structured and controlled—a house neat and clean enough to satisfy the most morally obtuse of her upper-class British characters.
—Martha C. Nussbaum, New Republic, 31 Dec. 2001 & 7 Jan. 2002
Only the most obtuse missed the main message: humans risked so distorting the natural order that they were sentencing themselves to be destroyed by frost or furnace.
—Joseph A. Amato, Dust, 2000
In fact, he was too obtuse even to realize that his assignment to Tejas was a demotion …
—James A. Michener, Texas, 1985
… either he, and the other people in his shop, and two people I subsequently ask are incapable of giving directions, or I am too rattled and obtuse to follow them, but I cannot find the police station.
—Renata Adler, Pitch Dark, 1983
The world of investments and returns can be obtuse to a newcomer.
—Jordan McMahon, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
See the previous discussion of economists, and their horridly obtuse belief that war grows the economy.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
The dismissals were compelled by twin obtuse opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice issued in 1973 and 2000.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
But the Dunne character’s binary, psychologically obtuse way of talking about survivors of abuse, essentially arguing that minutely observing their behavior can help adjudicate the truth of their claims, isn’t limited to his perspective as one character.
—Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
