"Look at thet, naow!" exclaimed the observant Aunt Ri; "an' thar's folk's thet sez dumb critters ain't got brains. They ain't noways dumb to each other, I notice; an' we air dumb aourselves when we air ketched with furriners. I allow I'm next door to dumb myself with this hyar Mexican I'm er travellin' with."英文原著 · 《Ramona》
They grow, dumb 'em. I guess if you'd broke your back as many times as I have a pullin' 'em up, yon would know all about' em. Dumb their dumb picters," sez he, a scowlin' at 'em. It wuz the same kind of weed that growed in our onion beds. I recognized it. Them and white daisies, our garden wuz overrun by 'em both. But I sez, "Can you tell how the little seed of this weed goes down into the earth and selects jest what she wants out of the great storehouse below? She never comes out in a pink head-dress or a yellow gown.英文原著 · 《Samantha at Saratoga》
[3] See on this subject Dr. Scott's interesting work, `The Deaf and Dumb,' 2nd edit. 1870, p. He says, "This contracting of natural gestures into much shorter gestures than the natural expression requires, is very common amongst the deaf and dumb. This contracted gesture is frequently so shortened as nearly to lose all semblance of the natural one, but to the deaf and dumb who use it, it still has the force of the original expression."英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
Miss Laura says that if men and women are kind in every respect to their dumb servants, they will be astonished to find how much happiness they will bring into their lives, and how faithful and grateful their dumb animals will be to them.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
CHAPTER LXI. In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. Suppose we applied no more ingenuity to the instruction of deaf and dumb and blind children than we sometimes apply in our American public schools to the instruction of children who are in possession of all their faculties? The result would be that the deaf and dumb and blind would acquire nothing. They would live and die as ignorant as bricks and stones.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
The Dahlgrens are dumb, Dumb are the mortars; Never more shall the drum Beat to colors and quarters-- The great guns are silent. --Henry Howard Brownell英文原著 · 《Hero Tales From American History》
So, dumb guys go for dumb girls, and smart guys go for dumb girls?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
His dumb dad got transferred to dumb Africa to operate on some dumb babies.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I'm gonna go get a dumb Scotch, eat some dumb peanuts, sit in a dumb chair.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
But if you'think it's dumb-- Dumb? Who said it was dumb?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
And what I realized was not that I had to dumb down my own profile. And what I realized was not that I had to dumb down my own profile.演讲 · 《How I hacked online dating ~ Amy Webb》