dense
英 [dens]
美[dɛns]
- adj. 稠密的；浓厚的；愚钝的
英英释意
- 1. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter;
- "dense smoke"
- "heavy fog"
- "impenetrable gloom"
- 2. closely crowded together;
- "a compact shopping center"
- "a dense population"
- "thick crowds"
- 3. hard to pass through because of dense growth;
- "dense vegetation"
- "thick woods"
- 4. having high relative density or specific gravity;
- "dense as lead"
- 5. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
- "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"
- "never met anyone quite so dim"
- "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
- "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"
- "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"
- "worked with the slow students"
