folly

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  • n.愚蠢；愚笨；愚蠢的想法（或事情、行为）
  • Web荒唐事；蠢事；傻话
Plural Form：follies  

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Folly
n.
1.
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愚蠢；愚笨；愚蠢的想法（或事情、行为）a lack of good judgement; the fact of doing sth stupid; an activity or idea that shows a lack of judgement
an act of sheer folly
纯粹愚蠢的行动
Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly.
放弃一份稳定的工作似乎愚蠢至极。
It would be folly to turn the offer down.
拒绝这个建议是愚蠢之举。
the follies of youth
青年时期的愚蠢行为
2.
[c]
（常见于旧时乡间豪宅花园中的）装饰性建筑a building that has no practical purpose but was built in the past for decoration, often in the garden of a large country house

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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。
tā zài nà suǒ dà xué xué xí yī nián hòu , fàng qì qiú xué , zhè shì yú chǔn de xíng wéi 。
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2.
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。
Novell fàn le yī gè duì yú ruǎn jiàn gōng sī ér yán yú chǔn zhì jí de cuò wù : shì tú yòng tā de zhuō miàn yìng yòng ruǎn jiàn , xiàng wēi ruǎn fā qǐ zhèng miàn gōng jī 。
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3.
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。
zhè xiàng gōng zuò shì yī xiàng cháng qī xíng jīng cǎi tú piàn zuǒ bian de yì shù jiā bèi chēng wéi shuí de dào dé shuō jiào de hòu guǒ zuì è hé yú chǔn 。
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4.
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。
yǒu shí zhǐ yǒu gān yù cái shì míng zhì de 。 jí shí de quàn gào běn lái kě yǐ wǎn jiù pà tè sēn bú gàn chǔn shì 。
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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。
yǒu lǐ mào bù yí dìng zǒng shì zhì huì de biāo zhì , kě shì bù lǐ mào zǒng shǐ rén huái yí qí yú chǔn 。
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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。
qī zi zài huǒ tóu shang , shuō tā dāng chū zhǎo tā zhēn shì xiā le yǎn 。 tā ne , yě zhēn gòu shǎ de , shuō tā yī jiàn tā jiù ě xin 。
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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；
wǒ pú rén yuē bó jiù yào wèi nǐ men qí dǎo ; yīn wèi wǒ bù àn nǐ men de míng wán bù líng lái bàn nǐ men , shì kàn tā de qíng miàn de ;
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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。
tā méi yǒu gěi tā de xué shēng men rèn hé zhí de nǔ lì de dōng xi – zhǐ néng shì hé tā yí yàng , jiā rù mǒu xiē wú suǒ bù zhī de jiàn zhèng rén háng liè , lái yì qǐ jiàn zhèng rén lèi de yú chǔn 。
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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。
xiàn zài zài huí guò tóu lái kàn tā , wèi miǎn tài yú chǔn le 。
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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。
dì èr , ràng nà xiē guó jiā dān dú chéng dān tiáo zhěng de yā lì shì yú chǔn de , yīn wèi zhè huì yǐn fā jù dà de tōng huò jǐn suō qū shì 。
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