For the past 15 years or so, graduates have emerged blinking into the white light of a witless and capricious boom time.

过去的15年，愚昧而又变幻无常的繁荣时代晃花了毕业生们的眼。

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Only a teenage girl could turn that revelation into a source of shame and embarrassment. Anna sauntered up to my lunch table where I sat, witless and surrounded by friends.

只有处在青春期的女孩子才能把那看成一件又囧又丑陋的事情，安娜总是在我吃午饭的桌子四周围徘徊，有时发呆有时和朋友们扯淡，对着我桌子大声宣布到“查理，克莱尔给我们说你有个巨大的弟弟啊！”

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A shell took off his father's head, and the baby was just left in the arms of his father, and this child has subsequently become sort of witless.

一颗炮弹炸掉了他爸爸的头，婴儿就留在爸爸的怀里，后来这孩子就变得有点愚笨。

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It leaves us, as a nation, witless about the true nature of the enemy and his motivations and therefore incapable of countering them effectively.

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My father forced me to come with him, and made me pull up a pike that scared me witless, and when I refused, he hit me in the face, and then I hammered a nail into my foot, and we were forced to go home.

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This particular display is a bad mix of Man Your Man Could Smell Like ironia (a boat everyone is jumping on these days) coupled with a more basic, witless sense of humor.

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