愚蠢

If you had delirium tremens, and thought you saw pink elephants and green alligators and yellow snakes all about you, it would be a foolish physician that would try to cure you of snakes. Or that would prescribe glasses to improve your eyesight, when he knew that the animals round about you were merely distorted visions of your mind.

如果你有妄想症，总是幻想着在自己身边看到粉红色的大象和绿色的美洲鳄和黄色的蛇的话，这个时候如果有个医生来医治你的惧蛇症，或者当他明明知道你只是思维幻想错乱，还执意要给你配副眼镜来改善你的视力，那就真是愚蠢至极了。

Daughter: What you should do is a Demented about stupid conversations.

女儿：你应该做得是颁布一项关于愚蠢的对话的"疯狂法令"。

What Karl Marx called 'the idiocy of rural life' no longer applies," writes Joel Kotkin, a demographer, in a book called "The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. A brain worker in Boise has the same access to technical and market information as her rival in San Francisco. In her leisure time, she can download the same books and films. She may not have the same choice of avant-garde theatre, but that is a sacrifice she may be content to make.

人口统计学家乔尔·科特金在一本名为《下一百年：2050年的美国》的书中写道："卡尔马克思所谓的'愚蠢的乡下生活'已一去不复返"：树城的科技人员与其远在旧金山的对手，拥有一样的、取得技术和市场信息的渠道；在闲暇时光，他能下载一样的书籍和电影；虽然他可能对前卫剧院没得一样的选择，但这应该是他所乐意做出的牺牲。

I don't know what's wrong whether you're dense or what...

我不知道怎么了，不管你是愚蠢还是怎样

In the deposition, I was trying to protect my family and myself from my selfish stupidity.

作证的时候，我试图保护自己和家庭免受自己自私的愚蠢行为的伤害。

If it came up for discussion among such friends as with him passed for close, he would deprecate the folly of the thing. It was all right to do it--all men do those things

假如和那些可以算得上亲密朋友的人们谈起来，他会批评这事干得太愚蠢：本来这事也算不得什么--哪个男人不做这种事呢

Deprecation , as of a proposal or an idea deemed silly or ill advised

贬抑：贬抑，讥笑，如当一个建议，意见被认为是愚蠢的或鲁莽的：用法与例句

Silly mistakes like these should not have happened, even though one may have a dive computer, imagine what will happen if the computer suddenly goes off at that moment, one will be left with nothing to guide except the depth and Submersible Pressure Gauge, that doesn't really help if sufficient knowledge is not drilled i nto one head of such danger.

这样的愚蠢错误不应发生，即使拥有个人潜水电脑表。试想如果电脑表于此时突然失灵，将会发生什么事，其除了测深仪/深度表及气压表外，将无法依赖任何器具来引导出险境。如果脑袋里没有事前拥有充足的知识，将酿成无法弥补的大错。

Another greybeard, known as the Wise Old Man, saw them and said derisively, How silly of you to do

有个老头子名叫智叟的看了发笑，说是你们这样干未免太愚蠢了，你们父子数人要挖掉这样两座大山是完全不可能的。

Another greybeard, know as the Wise Old Man, saw them and said derisively,"How silly of you to do this! It is quite impossible for you few to dig up these two huge mountains."

有个老头子名叫智叟的看了发笑，说是你们这样干未免太愚蠢了，你们父子数人要挖掉这样两座大山是完全不可能的。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。