ignoramus

ignoramus
[ˌɪgnəˈreɪməs]
(pl. ignoramuses)
  1. an ignorant or stupid person
    无知的人;笨人
语源
  1. late 16th cent. (as the endorsement made by a grand jury on an indictment considered backed by insufficient evidence to bring before a petty jury): Latin, literally we do not know' (in legal use 'we take no notice of it'), from ignorare (see ignore). The modern sense may derive from the name of a character in George Ruggle's Ignoramus (1615), a satirical comedy exposing lawyers' ignorance
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