冥顽不灵míng wán bù língbe deaf to advice; be impervious to reason; be unreformable; impenetrably thickheaded; pig-headed; stubborn
❍ 敝人指导过许多次了，然而他们～，绝对的不肯照办，于是弄出数不清的病人来…… (鲁迅《故事新编》35) But though I have pointed this out time and again,they are too pig headed to carry out instructions; hence countless are ill… 冥顽不灵mínɡ wán bù línɡ冥顽：愚笨；灵：聪明。比喻愚昧无知。impenetrably thick headed, dull and stupid, dead to all feeling |