A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
有些人认为种族只是一种社会结构，而人类基因组计划表明，由于人们有大约99%的基因相同，所以不存在种族。这是愚蠢的。
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
目前正在进行的一个进程将需要数百万年的时间来纠正，那就是由于自然生境的破坏而导致遗传和物种多样性的丧失。这是我们的后代最不可能原谅我们的愚蠢行为。
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
我们不能使自己相信一个外国人在任何方面都可能比我们聪明。如果有这样的人向我们指出我们的愚蠢，我们马上就会把那些愚蠢当作我们智慧的特别证据。
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
我的父亲基本上是一个服务员，当我得到我的第一份专业工作作为一个演员，我离开了一个工作，他给我找到了一半的钱。所以任何人都会认为他们很愚蠢，认为这是一个愚蠢的举动。
A stupid little dream for a stupid little war maggot. Mahlia hated herself for dreaming it. But sometimes she curled in on herself and held the stump of her right hand to her chest and pretended that none of it had happened.
为一个愚蠢的战争蛆虫做一个愚蠢的小梦。马丽亚恨自己做了这样的梦。但有时她蜷缩在自己身上，把右手的残肢抱在胸前，假装什么也没有发生。
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
一些科学家声称，由于氢如此丰富，它是宇宙的基本组成部分。我的争端。我说，比氢更愚蠢的是，氢是宇宙的基本组成部分。
When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我就想，谁会是最酷的?谁能做最愚蠢的事?你知道这样做很蠢，但你这么做只是为了成为最酷的人。然后你就会做一些很残酷的事情。
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
当一家大公司解雇你时，他们通常会给你一年的薪水去“追求梦想”。如果你很愚蠢，你会惊慌失措，然后找另一份工作。如果你很聪明，你就会拿着钱，用时间来想好下一步要做什么。
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
一个男人的脑袋特别漂亮通常意味着他很愚蠢;特别深刻的哲学家通常是肤浅的思想家;在文学作品中，不高于平均水平的才能通常被同时代的人视为天才。
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
当我带着事实和快乐来愉快地辩论时，愿上帝保佑我，使我免受愚人的攻击。愚人的头脑对他来说是一个王国，在那里理智缺乏支配，他把信念叫做偏见，把偏见叫做意见。
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
因此，有些奇怪的是，任何一个出身于如此卑贱和愚蠢的行当的人，居然会受到称赞，或受到尊敬;这根本不值得，因此，人们对它的确应该感到轻蔑和厌恶。
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
因为他们见百姓成群拥到街上，天天被雨打得皮肉湿透，却不能劝他们离开雨中，他们就住在自己家里，因为不能治好百姓的愚昧。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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 you are not willing to sound stupid then you don't deserve to be in love.
如果你不愿意听起来很傻，那么你不配拥有爱。
No amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
再多的学习也无法治愈愚蠢，而高等教育却能积极地强化它。
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
创造力是愚蠢的突然停止。
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。