A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off Holiness, And put on intellect, or my thunderous hammer shall drive thee, To wrath which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.
我不在乎一个人是好是坏;我只关心他是聪明人还是傻瓜。走吧!脱去圣洁，戴上智慧，不然我的大锤要把你击碎，使你恼恨，直到你听从我的话。
Graziano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search.
葛拉齐亚诺比威尼斯的任何一个人都说得多。他的理，好像两粒麦子藏在两蒲式耳糠秕里。你不到找着，要找一整天。
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
就假设而言，谁也不要指望从天文学中得到任何不能提供它的确定的东西，以免他把为另一个目的而设想的真理观念当作真理来接受，离开这项研究时，他会比刚开始时更愚蠢。
You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
你知道当某件事让你感觉很好，但你却害怕感觉很好?所以你有点犹豫?每个人都说，恭喜你，你一定很高兴。你会说一些愚蠢的话，比如，我只是在尽我所能利用我仅有的一点。
It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
让消费者做正确的事情似乎真的很难。我们用两吨重的钢铁、玻璃和塑料把我们可怜的自己拖到购物中心去，这是愚蠢的。我们把水装在斐济的塑料瓶里然后运到这里，真是愚蠢。
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
企图破坏我们的激情是愚蠢至极的。狂热者像疯子一样折磨自己，什么都不想要，什么都不爱，什么都感觉不到，如果他成功了，最终会变成一个彻头彻尾的怪物，这是多么崇高的目标啊!
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
但作为一名企业家，你必须感觉自己能从飞机上跳下来，因为你有信心能抓住一只飞过的鸟。这是一种愚蠢的行为，大多数企业家都很生气，因为这只鸟不会飞过来，但也有几次会飞过来。
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
我讨厌别人说蠢话。我真的不怎么容忍傻瓜。当人们表现得像个傻瓜时，并不是说我自己不会时不时地做一些奇怪的傻事，而是当人们说一些愚蠢的事情时，我感到压力很大。
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
那些认为自己在谈论棒球时知道自己在说什么的人，包括播音员和所有的体育媒体——无论你拿出多少相反的证据，他们都会继续认为自己认为的是正确的。
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. It depends upon the character of those who handle it.
我不知道事情是否应该这样，但是如果明智的人鲁莽行事，愚蠢的事情肯定不会再愚蠢了。邪恶总是邪恶，但愚蠢并不总是愚蠢。这取决于处理它的人的性格。
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
我们想让你坐下来，把你的自尊留在家里，让我们了解这一切都是愚蠢的根源。还有一些人把东西放在外面，或者扔一根棍子，把他们的手藏起来，然后把东西放在媒体上。
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
真理是太阳底下最愚蠢的东西。试着靠真理谋生，去参加汤社。天啊!任何一个牧师，只要他想在布道坛这个坚固的地方宣讲真理，他们就会骑着他自己的布道栏，把他赶出教堂。
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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。
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
愚妄人若静默，自以为有智慧;若缄默，自以为通达。
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。
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。
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。
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
任何傻瓜都能说自己是聪明人，但只有聪明人才能承认自己是傻瓜。