书呆子

For an individual voter, being well-informed about every twist of public policy is an irrational use of time. But leaving a self-selecting elite of wonks and careerists in charge of policy-making is unappealing.

一个独立的投票人花时间去知晓公共政策的每个方面是愚蠢的，但是将制定政策的权利留给书呆子和野心家这种的精英是令人厌恶的。

I'm such a dork, I guess that cheers me up.

我是个书呆子我想这会让我高兴点

Hey, I'm a dork!

我是个书呆子了

I can't date a dork like him!

我不会跟像他这样的书呆子约会。

So, you were both dorks. Big deal.

所以，你们都是书呆子，没什么大惊小怪的。

Joey: So, you were both dorks.

所以你们两个都是书呆子。

So, you were both dorks.

所以，你们都是书呆子，没什么大惊小怪的。

So? You were both dorks.

所以你们两个都是书呆子

You are both dorks.

你们两个都是书呆子。

Propeller-heads used to be dorks and nerds, but today they are seen as being really cool (by some people!).

以前技术人员是书呆子，不过现在他们看起来很酷。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。