A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
如果你把一条尾巴叫做一条腿，那么狗有几条腿?五个?不，把尾巴叫做腿，别把它叫做腿。
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
遇到比我们更愚蠢的人是多么令人愉快。我们爱他们，因为他们是如此。
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt. O gull, O dolt, As ignorant as dirt!
你没有一半的力量来伤害我，因为我必须受到伤害。啊，海鸥，啊，傻瓜，无知得像土一样!
We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.
如果我们给那些不缴纳所得税的人减免所得税，我们会显得非常愚蠢。
What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
什么是久经世故的人?他是个自以为能游得比实际更好的人，有时他会淹死。
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.\
我认为令人震惊的发现是猫头鹰并不愚蠢而且非常凶猛，很难训练
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
试图让自己变得比实际更笨的麻烦在于，你经常会成功。
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
我一年级不及格，这是我最大的问题。你总是觉得自己是个失败者，觉得自己很愚蠢。
Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.
在所有女孩列出的最愚蠢的事情中，“深夜独自散步”几乎排在首位。
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
一个人，不管是绅士还是女士，如果对一本好的小说不感兴趣，那他一定是愚蠢得令人无法忍受。
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
太多的人愚蠢到把伦敦咖啡馆的回声误认为是王国的声音。
Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.
任何告诉你这些[转基因]产品是安全的政治家或科学家要么非常愚蠢，要么就是在说谎。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
聪明人知道勇气的终点和愚蠢的起点。
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
傻瓜有两种:一种说:“这是旧的，所以是好的。”另一个说:“这是新的，所以更好。”
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
如果愚人坚持他的愚蠢，他就会变得聪明。
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
幸福和智慧是有区别的:认为自己是最幸福的人确实是最幸福的人;但自以为最聪明的人，往往是最愚蠢的人。
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
傻瓜从聪明人那里学不到任何东西，而聪明人却能从傻瓜那里学到很多东西。
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
聪明人和傻子之间只有一根手指的区别。