A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
杰米现在要去休息一下了,我要继续做我自己的傻事,然后自己去试试。
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
任何心理学家都不应该假装理解他不理解的东西……只有傻瓜和江湖骗子知道一切,却什么也不懂。
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
有些人认为拥有丰满的胸部会让女人变得愚蠢。事实上,恰恰相反:女人的胸部越大,男人就越笨。
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
考虑到人们的行为是多么愚蠢,谈吐又是多么令人愉快,也许多说少做对世界更好。
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
从自然主义的观点来看,所有的人都是平等的。自然平等原则只有两个例外:天才和白痴。
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
不聪明的人就像长在好地上的杂草;他们喜欢被逗乐的程度与他们感到疲倦的程度成正比。
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
愚蠢、愤怒、虚荣、残忍、罪恶、恶意、谎言——当它们与我们面对同一个方向时,我们看不到它们的全部。
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
通往愚蠢和罪恶的道路是循序渐进的,而且几乎是难以察觉的。一旦我们走下坡路,我们就会不知不觉地走下坡路。
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
愚蠢、自私和健康是幸福的三个条件——尽管如果没有愚蠢,其他的都是无用的。
I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy.
我知道很多人不明白我为什么回来,人们仍然会说这是愚蠢的,这是一个错误的决定。但我很高兴。
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
有三样东西是很难驯服的:海洋、傻瓜和女人。我们也许不久就能驯服海洋;傻瓜和女人需要更长的时间。
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.
我曾经是一个年轻人,在极地冰冠消退后不久,我清楚地记得我相信几乎所有的成年人都是愚蠢的傻瓜。
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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。
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
傻瓜的错误是人人皆知的,但他自己却不知道。聪明人的错误自己知道,但世人不知道。
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
很难想象有比把这些决定交给那些不为错误付出代价的人更愚蠢或更危险的决策方式了。
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。
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。
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
真正的受欢迎来自善意的行为,而不是愚蠢的行为。