A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Foolish
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
语言不能很好地表达思想。它们总是在表达出来之后立刻变得有些不同，有些扭曲，有些愚蠢。
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
当所有的技艺都无法做出一只牡蛎的时候，还有什么比认为所有这些罕见的天地结构都是偶然出现的更愚蠢的呢!
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
当你在演戏的时候，你没有任何愚蠢的感觉。当你年轻的时候，你不想看起来像个傻瓜，所以你不会做一些可能会让你脆弱的事情。
O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!
啊，给我们一点力量，让我们像别人看待我们一样看待自己吧!莫尼太太犯了个大错，把我们救了出来。和愚蠢的概念;我们的衣着和步态多么神气，多么虔诚!
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
要改革一个世界，改革一个国家，没有一个明智的人会这样做;除了愚蠢的人，所有的人都知道，唯一可靠的，虽然是一个缓慢得多的改革，是每个人开始和完善自己。
There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few...
在这门课上不会有愚蠢的挥舞魔杖或愚蠢的咒语。因此，我不期望你们很多人能欣赏到制作魔药这种微妙的科学和精确的艺术。然而，对于那些选择少数…
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
神必饶恕我对他所说的愚妄话，正如我也必饶恕我的对头，就是他们向我所写的愚妄话。虽然他们在灵性上不如我，正如我在灵性上不如你一样。
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
因为我们从一个人所持的某种学说的性质，或者从其他与他持有同样学说的人的行为中，推断出他将会犯罪，而惩罚他，这就是迫害，在任何情况下，都是愚蠢和邪恶的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
在上帝面前，我们都一样聪明——也一样愚蠢。
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
聪明人从愚蠢的问题中学到的东西比傻瓜从聪明的答案中学到的东西还多。
If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
如果你不冒险做傻事，你就永远不会做特别的事。
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
他活着是为了建立而不是吹嘘一个慷慨的种族;没有十分之一的愚蠢的表情。
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
假装自己已完全从失望的激情中恢复过来是愚蠢的。这样的伤口总会留下疤痕。
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。