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愚蠢
Stupid
People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
人们并不像政客们想的那么愚蠢。我们中越来越多的人对投票的“公民义务”一笑置之，拒绝扮演强制选民的角色。
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
没有任何计划可以阻止一个愚蠢的人在错误的时间在错误的地点做错误的事情，但是一个好的计划应该阻止注意力的形成。
The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
愚蠢的人和聪明的人之间的区别——不管他们是否受过良好的教育——是聪明的人能够处理微妙的事情。
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
无知的人和受过教育的人的区别在于后者知道更多的事实。但这与他们是愚蠢还是聪明无关。
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
我是个非常幸运的女孩。对于那些犯了一些非常愚蠢的错误，并且很快就吸取了一些艰难教训的人来说，我仍然非常幸运。
Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.
即使是知识分子也不会接受我。身体上，我看起来像他们中的一个。我两鬓斑白，走路有点跛，戴着一副厚厚的眼镜。
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains. You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
你知道，在人群中演讲和做出承诺并不需要太多的脑子。 你知道，在人群中演讲和做出承诺并不需要太多的脑子。
I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.
我被一位自由撰稿人邀请去参加戴安娜王妃的葬礼。这有多可悲?那将是地球上最愚蠢的事情。
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
我有很多遗憾，我相信每个人都有。你做的傻事，你后悔…如果你有理智，如果你不后悔，也许你是愚蠢的。
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
但我可以告诉你，你的愚蠢和不公正将迫使我们做什么。它将迫使我们从你的统治中解放出来，并且比我们过去更加自力更生。
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!
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
人的心是如此的愚蠢，以至于他总是把希望寄托在未来，从过去的错误中什么也没有学到，幻想明天一定比今天更好。
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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。”
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。
Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
如果你不喜欢别人假装喜欢的东西，不要觉得自己很傻。
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。
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。
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。