使愚蠢

Don Quixote derides the stupidity of knights Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science

堂吉诃德》使骑士看起来愚蠢可笑；《奇妙的新世界》嘲弄了科学的自命不凡

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

一个英明的儿子给他的父亲带去欢乐，一个愚蠢的人则使母亲失望。

If that is indeed how things play out, the five countries that collectively proved unable or unwilling to stop Mr Kim's nuclear delinquency before his provocative nuclear test last October will have compounded failure with folly: encouraging nuclear wannabes to believe that the more rules they break, the bigger the eventual pay-off; and in the process eviscerating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and setting off a dangerous series of nuclear chain reactions, from East Asia to the Middle East.

如果真的就这样结束的话，这五个国家将会犯下更多的愚蠢的错误（在去年十月份朝鲜进行核试射之前，他们并没有或者说并不愿阻止金正日的核计划）：这将会鼓励那些希望拥有核武器的国家相信规则破坏得越多，获利就越多，他们会继续使《核不扩散条约》的威信荡然无存，届时从东亚至中东会触发/引发一系列危险的核&多米诺&效应。

To keep them interested and to explain new vocabulary I would have to run around the classroom, miming actions and generally acting like a silly bugger.

使他们感兴趣的，并解释新的词汇，我必须运行在课堂上，挖掘行动和一般代理像一个愚蠢的鸡奸。

But even more damaging to the U.S. ability to liberalize trade is the fact that, given the widespread fear of freer trade in the population, it is almost insane to present Congress with a string of piffling FTAs and ask representatives to go to bat for trade liberalization again and again.

但是，对于美国使贸易自由化的能力的更大损害是，假如公众中弥漫着对于更自由的贸易的恐惧，那么，向国会提交一长串琐碎的FTAs，要求众议员们一遍又一遍地支持贸易自由化，就几乎是愚蠢的。

Doctors and scientists, as the recent terrorist attacks on Glasgow airport showed, can be radicalized like anyone else and many experts have pointed at the folly of keeping stocks of dangerous diseases so readily at hand.

最近格拉斯哥机场遭到的恐怖袭击表明，医生和科学家与其他人一样也会变成激进分子，很多专家也指出，使大量危险性病菌唾手可得是件愚蠢的事。

The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.

事实上他们并没有这样做，相反地，他们却遵守星期日，使他们在有思想的人眼中显得愚蠢。

The book has a provocative title, it's the Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.

书的名字很挑衅，是最愚蠢的一代：数码时代怎样使美国的年轻一代变蠢，怎样毁掉偶们的未来。

IN THE frantic search for ways to stop the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus, a gel that women apply to their vaginas before having sex, in order to destroy or disable the virus, sounds one of the most desperateYet it is not a foolish idea.

在众多阻止人体免疫缺损病毒传播的方法中，有一种是女性性交之前置于阴道中胶质物，用来破坏病毒或使其失去活性，这种方法听上去是。但是这并不是什么愚蠢的方法。

War and politics in Afghanistan 阿富汗的战争与政治 McChrystal in the bull ring 斗牛圈中的麦克里斯托尔 Sep 3rd 2009 | KABUL From The Economist print edition NATO is running out of time in Afghanistan 北约在阿富汗耗尽了时间 CALL it the " Matador Doctrine ": a beast charges pointlessly at the bullfighter's cape, exhausting itself and suffering endless small wounds, until it succumbs to a weaker opponent.

斗牛毫无目的地冲向斗牛士的斗篷，结果使自己筋疲力尽，伤痕累累，最终不得不屈服于它弱小的对手，这便是&斗牛游戏&。驻阿富汗的北约指挥官麦克里斯托尔表示他的军队就像一头光有蛮力却极其愚蠢的牛，猛冲向暴乱分子。

They weren't aggressive, but I yelled and threw a rock in their direction to get them off the trail and away from me, just in case.

他们没有侵略性，但我大喊，并在他们的方向扔石头让他们过的线索，远离我，以防万一。

In slot 2 in your bag put wrapping paper, quantity does not matter in this case.

在你的书包里槽2把包装纸、数量无关紧要。