folly

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。