The OED puts it best: “A wooden head, a wooden block for hats or wigs; hence, a head with no more intelligence in it than one of these, a blockish head.”

《牛津英语词典》的解释最恰当：“一个木制的头，戴帽子或假发的木头，因此，这种脑袋中放不下才智，含义为愚蠢的人。”

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“I think they're being led by the head of the security service, ” says a former senior intelligence official.

“我认为他们两个人正被安全部门头子牵着走”一位前高级情报官员如是说到。

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“CHRIST, I miss the cold war, ” sighed the head of British intelligence in the latest James Bond film.

在最新的一部邦德片中，英国情报局的头头摇头叹道，“天啊，我真怀念冷战”。

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