A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
一个女人花了二十年的时间把她的儿子变成一个男人，另一个女人花了二十分钟的时间把他变成一个傻瓜。
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
如果你很穷，做了一些愚蠢的事情，你就是疯子。如果你很富有，做了一些愚蠢的事情，你就是怪人。
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
行政部门变得过于强大，司法部门变得过于傲慢，立法部门变得过于愚蠢。
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
我想很多人会继续走向粗心的计算，因为每分钟都有一个傻瓜诞生。
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.
爱国主义是一种生动的集体责任感。民族主义是一只在自己粪堆上啼叫的蠢公鸡。
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
我真是个傻瓜，我把这只鹪鹩搭在鹰的翅膀上，直到我飞累了，它才在我上面飞起来。
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
也许这些书能让我们走出半个山洞。他们也许能阻止我们犯同样的愚蠢错误!
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
相信我的话，最愚蠢的女人也能驾驭一个聪明的男人;但是一个非常聪明的女人才能对付一个傻瓜。
A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
一个不满足于让那些和他一起生活的人感到厌烦的傻瓜，坚持要折磨后代。
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
我猜，如果你愚蠢到连想都没想就参军了，那你真是个傻瓜。
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
一个人有时候可能很笨，但是对于真正的愚蠢来说，没有什么能比得上团队合作。
People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
人们会说你的坏话，因为只有这样，他们微不足道的自己才能比你感觉更好。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
愚妄人尽吐心中的意念。智慧人保守到底。
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。
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
蠢人不懂知识只凭想象行事，学究不懂想象只凭知识行事。
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。
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
完全的无知并不是那么可怕或极端的邪恶，也远不是最大的邪恶;太多的聪明和学问，再加上不良的教养，是致命得多的。
Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
培训、书籍和学习都是昂贵的。然而，愚蠢的代价仍然要高得多。