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愚蠢
Stupid
I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.
我讨厌有人在火车上问我‘你是索尔加男孩吗?如果人们想要照片或签名，这很酷，但我不喜欢这些愚蠢的问题。
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。
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
欺诈行为越严重，就会越滑头，就会越贪婪地被吞噬，因为在冒名顶替者发现轻率的地方，愚蠢总会找到信仰。
Let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools even though I don't personally have a kid in school: I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.
让我来解释一下，虽然我个人没有孩子在上学，但我为什么喜欢为学校交税:我不喜欢和一群蠢人生活在一起。
In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.
上小学的时候，我是个十足的极客。你知道，总是有一些孩子太矮，戴眼镜的孩子，不擅长运动的孩子。我当时三岁。
I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
我只能得出这样的结论:你们当地的大多数人是大自然在地面上爬行过的最有害的小害虫。
It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive.
真让我生气，人都是白痴，但你打算怎么办?世界上到处都是白痴。这就是为什么我们永远不会有会飞的汽车。人们不知道怎么开车。
It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.
在我年轻的时候，要处理这种关注是不可能的。我对这一成功感到兴奋，但在这一点上，我也认为这是可笑的愚蠢。
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
正是因为国家倾向于愚蠢和卑劣，人类才行动得如此缓慢;正是因为个人有能力做更好的事情，它才会发生变化。
I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
我想做什么就做什么。他们会告诉我我所做的是愚蠢的还是完全是浪费时间。我可以告诉他们他们错了，我们会达成协议的。
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
错误地把悖论当作发现，把暗喻当作证明，把滔滔不绝的空话当作真理的源泉，把自己当作神谕，这些都是我们与生俱来的愚蠢。
There are as many fools at a university as any where... But their folly, I admit, has a certain stamp - the stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.
大学里的傻瓜和其他地方的傻瓜一样多。但我承认，他们的愚蠢有一定的烙印——如果你愿意，可以说是大学教育的印记。这是经过训练的愚蠢行为。
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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 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。
You can never understand why people do stupid things for love, unless you, yourself experience how it is to be in love.
你永远不会明白为什么人们会为爱做傻事，除非你自己亲身体验过恋爱的滋味。
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。
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。