It sounds pretty silly, but it's really important because it allows you to define a thermometer and temperature.

这听起来相当白痴，但是它确实很重要,因为它让你可以定义,温度计和温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You have a little more pressure in grad school, but sometimes that means when you're an undergrad your advisor will decide to put you on projects that maybe when you look at them seem a little bit silly.

那就是你们没有，要做出重大发现,或取得重大成就的压力,你们在研究生时候会有些压力,当然有时候这意味着。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I know some of you come from Europe and other parts of the world where the ground floor is rez-de-chauss?e or some silly thing like this 1 and you push a button on the elevator to one and you go up to the first floor.

我知道你们中间有些人来自欧洲,或者世界其他地方，你们那里的一楼,和地面齐平，或者像这样可笑的事情,比如你要按下电梯的按钮,然后才能上到真正的1楼。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well, you could imagine a view like that, but it would be rather a silly view.

你当然可以那样想,不过那是一个相当愚蠢的看法

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That'll catch a lot of just silly mistakes for you if you go back and see it and you don't have all of that.

这可以让你抓到很多低级错误,如果你回去发现它们不一样的话。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

How can you make such a silly mistake?

你怎么会犯那么傻的错误？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选