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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Doing so begs for an injury or at best a rotten finish because you spent your energy too early in the course.

这么做简直是自找受伤，至少也会在比赛结束时精疲力尽，因为你在赛场上过早地耗费了精力。

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Meat is, at best, a secondary source of essential elements.

肉类充其量不过是身体基本要素的次要来源。

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Many of Frost's best-loved poems were about the years he spent with his young family on a farm in Derry,New Hampshire.

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Now, I wanted to compare it with another question that I--people have this simple idea that there's a best investment.

现在,让我们对比另一个问题,人们总是简单地认为存在一种最佳投资

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And millions of other people,"the average", benefit a great deal because of the study of the best, of the "growing-tip".

千千万万的“普罗大众，因对最优秀的个体的研究，而受惠。

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Unfortunately, the settings screen also reinforces the notion of it being --at best -- a prototype.

ENGADGET: Resize a Nokia Lumia to juggernaut proportions and it might look something like this

That is why investors see any purchases by the European Central Bank of Spanish and Italian debt as - at best - a sticking plaster.

BBC: How ECB failed to reassure investors

But while western diplomats demand a letter from Iran revoking the decree, they may get second best - a ruling which says it is not in the state's interests to carry out the death sentence.

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