cretin

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In one scene, he describes the French ambassador to Lebanon as “a famous cretin”, and a previous one to Russia as “an idiot”.
一次，他把法國駐黎巴嫩的大使形容為“有名的白癡”，并且稱駐俄羅斯的前大使是“笨蛋”。
Mr Berlusconi ridiculed Mr Tremonti, who is trusted by markets, as someone who “thinks he’s a genius and believes that everyone else is a cretin”.
Berlusconi嘲弄受市場信賴的Tremonti“自以為是天才，當別人都是白癡”。
The word “cretin” is believed to come from a mountain dialect of French, apparently because iodine deficiency in the Alps produced so many cretins.
“cretin”這個詞可能就是來自法國山區(qū)的方言，因為在阿爾卑斯地區(qū)由于碘缺乏，有很多cretin患者。

Just when you think that one is the more outstanding cretin, the other stakes his claim.
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Now, to address your description of the typical taxicab as a dirty, disgusting vehicle driven by a cretin.
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