The greatest novelist of the 19th Century, Sir Walter Scott, was given the title of "king of blockheads" and was made to wear a dunce cap for a whole month.

19世纪最伟大的小说家之一，沃尔特·斯科特先生，曾被人称为“傻子之王”，并被戴上了象征劣等生的帽子，整整戴了一个月。

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Sir Walter Scott began using the word in the 1822 in his book the Pirate, more than one thousand years after the Viking invasions.

1822年，在维京人入侵1000年后，Walter Scott爵士第一次在他的著作《海盗》使用该词。

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A frail and peccable mortal-sir walter Scott.

脆弱的易犯罪的人类-沃尔特·斯科特。

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It was as if Sir Walter Scott had hurled a thunderbolt at him straight from heaven.

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