folly

folly

美 [ˈfɑli] 　英 [ˈfɒli]

• n.愚蠢；愚笨；愚蠢的想法（或事情、行为）
• 网络荒唐事；蠢事；傻话

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After one year at the university he gave up his studies, it was an act of the greatest folly.

他在那所大学学习一年后，放弃求学，这是愚蠢的行为。

Novell committed the ultimate folly for a software company: trying to attack Microsoft head-on, with its own desktop applications.

Novell犯了一个对于软件公司而言愚蠢至极的错误：试图用它的桌面应用软件，向微软发起正面攻击。

The work is one of a long line of fantastic images left by an artist who was known for moralizing on the consequences of sin and folly.

这项工作是一项长期行精彩图片左边的艺术家被称为谁的道德说教的后果罪恶和愚蠢。

Sometimes it is only sensible to interfere. A word in season might have saved Paterson from his own folly.

有时只有干预才是明智的。及时的劝告本来可以挽救帕特森不干蠢事。

Politeness is not always the sign of wisdom, but the want of it always leaves room for the suspicion of folly.

有礼貌不一定总是智慧的标志，可是不礼貌总使人怀疑其愚蠢。

The angry wife said she was blind in choosing him, who said answering a fool according his folly that the sight of her made him sick.

妻子在火头上，说她当初找他真是瞎了眼。他呢，也真够傻的，说他一见她就恶心。

My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly.

我仆人约伯就要为你们祈祷；因为我不按你们的冥顽不灵来办你们，是看他的情面的；

He gave his students no vision to fight for--only only the prospect of joining him in the ranks of the all-knowing witnesses to human folly.

他没有给他的学生们任何值得努力的东西–只能是和他一样，加入某些无所不知的见证人行列，来一起见证人类的愚蠢。

To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly.

现在再回过头来看她，未免太愚蠢了。

But second, it would be folly to put the burden of adjustment solely on them, for that would create a huge deflationary bias.

第二，让那些国家单独承担调整的压力是愚蠢的，因为这会引发巨大的通货紧缩趋势。

'No! ' he said, a little sullenly, but stoutly; 'I'm NOT sorry. And it wasn't folly at all! It was simply glorious! '

“不！”他脸色阴沉但气壮如牛地说，“我不遗憾。那根本就不是什么胡闹！那是光荣的！”

And much of what I stumbled into by folly wing my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

而且，许多我出于猎奇和直觉而偶然去做的事，后来也变证明是十分值得的。

The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.

通达人的智慧，在乎明白己道。愚昧人的愚妄，乃是诡诈。（或作自欺）

Now the people sneer at me-the very hills and sky seem to laugh at me till I blush shamefully for my folly.

现在，人们在讥笑我，山川和天空也似乎在嘲笑我，直到我为自己的愚蠢而羞愧得满面通红。

Here we see another example of his folly, as he encourages his son to be just as boorish and awful as he is.

在这里我们又看到了一个例子来显示他的蠢笨，他鼓励他儿子像他一样恶劣、俗不可耐。

the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly.

总体上在我看来，从客观的角度，没完没了地思考自己为什么会存在，或者是生命有什么意义，是非常愚蠢的行为。

At last, in attacking sacerdotal power, he was led to deny transubstantiation, which he called a deceit and a blasphemous folly.

最后，当他攻击祭司权时，他进而否认了化体说，把化体说称作一桩欺骗和渎神的蠢事。

I copied and sent him a great part of it, which set in a strong light the folly of pursuing the Muses.

我抄了一本，把大部分诗稿送给他并希望他为该书所感动，不要再愚蠢地从事于诗歌。

Such a crush of finery and folly she had never seen. It clinched her convictions concerning her state.

她可从未见过如此华丽挥霍的盛况。这更加坚定了她对自己的处境的看法。

Years of drought and floods mercilessly show how rediculous our folly is. And now we found the actual value of these "waste lands" .

连年的洪灾干旱无情地耻笑了我们的愚行，到现在我们才发现这些“荒地”的实际价值。

He was wild enough and obstinate enough to commit any folly when a woman he loved was in the case.

他本来就不顾一切，执迷不悟，一个女人合了他的意，他什么傻事也干得出。

There is no surer mark of folly, than an attempt to correct the natural infirmities of those we love.

世上没有比企图去矫正我们所爱慕的人的天生的缺陷更显得愚蠢的了。

It was devotion-it was passion-it was all sorts of fondness and folly.

1这是一种献身精神，一种激情，是那形形色色的喜爱和迷恋。

He was so well acquainted with the turf, the gambling-table, the cockpit, and every worse rendezvous of folly and dissipation.

他一直在赛马场、赌桌、斗鸡场以及浪荡挥霍的场所厮混。

But when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

但是，如果他们的能力有所不及，却千方百计硬是要这样干的话，那么，这就是错误而且要受到非难。

Our folly has undone us.

我们的愚蠢把我们毁了。

In a brief statement, Folly apologized to his family and constituents, but did not address the contents of the emails.

简要说，Folly向家庭组成成员道歉，但未涉及电子邮件内容。

To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.

说到他的太太，除了她的无知和愚蠢倒可以供他开心作乐之外，他对她就再没有别的恩情了。

What folly to let such a man chair the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives.

让这样一个人担任众议院国土安全委员会的主席是多愚蠢的举动啊。

Trying to cover up the mistake is an act of folly.

试图隐藏错误是一件愚蠢的事。

Not until the dramatic end does the obsessive Nicholson recognize the folly of assisting the enemy in war and destroy the bridge.

直到戏剧的最后执着的尼科尔森才意识到在战争中帮助敌人是多么愚蠢，然后毁掉了这座桥。

He was wild enough and obstinate enough to commit any folly when a woman he loved was in the case.

他本来就不顾一切，执迷不悟，一个女人合了他的意，他什么傻事也干得出。

So much about North Korea remains impenetrable that it would be folly to claim I've gotten everything right.

北朝鲜在很多方面，迄今为止，外界依然不得而知。因此，我也不能保证我所听到的都是事实真相。

The lust for the superfluous is folly, for it has no bounds.

贪欲过多就是愚蠢，因为欲望无穷无尽。

For a future president to decide now what to do in Iraq a year hence would be folly.

因此对将来的总统而言，现在决定一年后在伊拉克要做什么是愚蠢的。

It would be sheer folly to buy such a large car - we wouldn't be able to afford to run it.

买这样大的一辆车真是愚蠢，我们根本开不起它。

Being conscious of our own folly, we would not desire to rule our own destinies.

因为知道自己的愚蠢，我们不敢掌管自己的命运。

Folly delights a man who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding keeps a straight course.

无知的人以愚妄为乐；聪明的人按正直而行。

Here's why: Trying to time the market is folly because for every buyer, there is a seller.

原因如下：试图抓住市场是愚蠢的。因为有一个买家，就有一个卖家。

A piece of incredible folly on the part of the company precipitated an outbreak.

公司方面做出一件难以置信的蠢事促成了一次暴动。

The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.

他口中的语言，开始是愚昧，最后却是残忍的狂语。

You've broken up that gentleman a bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great hider of folly, is what you want.

你敲了一下这位先生，现在你要把他藏在一个地方，你需要的是河，这是藏祸之处。

I would usually come down from these amphetamine highs with a sense of folly, exhausted and empty-handed.

我通常会得到安非他明带来的快乐和愚蠢的感觉，接着精疲力尽和两手空空。

She reasoned with me for an hour about the folly of my plans.

她同我争辩了一个小时，想使我明白我的计划有多荒唐。

It would indeed be folly for large chunks of the world economy to embark on an immediate and draconian set of budget cuts.

一大部分世界经济体马上着手实施一系列残酷的预算削减着实愚蠢。

And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the question.

转念间她又痛恨自己问出这样的傻问题。