"No, no, Robert," said the old fool. "the rascals knew that yesterday was my rent-day: they thought to have me cleverly."
“不,不,罗伯特,”那个老傻瓜说,“那些流氓知道昨天是我收租的日子。”
As the physicist Richard Feynman famously said: the first principle is you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
物理学家理查德·费曼曾说过:“不要欺骗自己,没有比你自己更容易欺骗的人了。”
Dr Sergio Bertolucci said it was vital not to "fool around" given the staggering implications of the result.
塞尔吉奥·贝尔托卢奇博士说,尽量不做一些可能影响实验结果的无用事是至关重要的。
"Don't let an alligator's easygoing appearance fool you," Sawyer said. "These creatures have no empathy for drunken pranksters looking for fun."
“不要让鳄鱼随和的外表蒙骗住了你,”索耶说,“鳄鱼这种动物对酒醉之后寻寻开心的恶作剧之徒是没有同情心的。”
I might have said with entire truth that I had no wish to dispute any dogma; but I never was such a fool as to feel and say, "credo quia incredibile" ["I believe because it is incredible"].
也许曾信誓旦旦地说自己不会怀疑任何教义,但我总归不会是那种有着“玄则信”这类想法的笨蛋。
Then Delilah said to Samson, "you have made a fool of me; you lied to me."
大利拉对参孙说:“你欺哄我,向我说谎言。”
Delilah then said to Samson, "Until now, you have been making a fool of me and lying to me."
大利拉对参孙说:“你到如今还是欺哄我,向我说谎言。”
"It means," he said, "that when they come to me some night and wake me up, and say, 'Captain, we're going down,' that I won't make a fool o 'meself."
“意思是,”他说,“当船员们晚上喊醒我,嚷道:‘船长,船要沉了。”’我可不能惊慌失措,自乱阵脚。
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said this.
“你可以欺骗某些人一世,也可以欺骗所有人于一时,但是你无法欺骗所有人于一世”,亚伯拉罕·林肯(abraham Lincoln)应该说过这句话。
"But no explanation can fully satisfy that question of why we suffer," he said. "And anyone who says they have the answer is either a fool or a liar."
他说:“但是任何解释都不能充分回答我们为什么会受苦的问题,任何说自己找到了答案的人,要么是傻瓜,要么在说谎。”
Decide what you can spend while at work during the week and put that amount into an envelope, said Dayana Yochim, a personal finance expert with the Motley Fool, the financial advice Web site.
理财咨询网站MotleyFool的个人理财专家Dayana Yochim建议,可以计划好一周的正常开销,把这笔钱装进一个信封里。
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fool the world has has ever produced nothing to say on the subject.
人言沉默是金,但这世界出产的顶尖蠢才们则对这问题未见有话说过。
I was obliged to admit that I did know it for a certainty, and I said to myself, 'Pip, what a fool you are!
可是我又不得不承认她一定会带给我不幸。我在心中暗暗责备自己:“皮普,你是多么愚蠢啊!”
'Why couldn't you let me be!' said Mrs. Brown, 'when I was contented? You little fool!'
“我本来已经心满意足了,您怎么还不能放我安宁一下?”布朗太太说道,“你这个小傻瓜!”
She laughed contemptuously, and said she was not such a fool as to want children, and that she would never have a child by me.
她轻蔑地大笑,并且说她不会那么愚蠢,以致于希冀生儿育女,她不会为我生几个孩子的。
"Oh, you fool," said the father, "why should you want to run about there?" Afterwards you will be tired, and no longer able to raise your arm.
“你个小傻瓜,”父亲说,“你现在要是到处乱跑,待会儿会累得连胳膊都抬不起来的。”
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
当他们说我们在企图愚弄他的时候,我惟有嘟哝着说:造物主早已抢先了我们一步啦。
But wait! You probably just said. How can the ability to fool someone into thinking that a machine is a person prove the machine can think?
你也许会说:请等等,以一台机器就是一个人的愚弄想法怎么才能证明机器会思考?
Farther on they met Edmund coming toward them on the path. Though he was thin and weak, Edmund embraced his brother. "I was a fool to let my love of hunt come before all else," he said.
稍远一点,他们又遇上了埃德蒙正沿着小路朝他们走来,虽然埃德蒙消瘦虚弱,他还是抱住了他的弟弟,说:“我真是蠢,竟然将自己对狩猎的喜爱放到第一位。”
Lemore was always pleasant company, despite her penchant for scolding him whenever he said something rude about the gods. If Griff wants to cast me as the fool, I'll play the game.
除了每当他对神灵说点不敬的话就会批评他的嗜好外,莱莫尔总的来说是个愉快的伙伴。
"We knew we could turn meat into different forms, but whether we could actually fool people by making it look like chocolate is what we didn't know," Dr. Farouk said.
“我们知道肉有多种做法,但是能不能把肉做得跟巧克力一样,‘骗过’人,我们也不知道,”法鲁克博士说。
"No," said her father, "Wickham's a fool, if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds."
父亲说:“韦翰要是拿不到一万镑就答应娶丽迪雅,那他才是个大傻瓜呢。”
"No," said her father, "Wickham's a fool, if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds."
父亲说:“韦翰要是拿不到一万镑就答应娶丽迪雅,那他才是个大傻瓜呢。”
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