如果你认为幽默只是一种可有可无的娱乐形式，那你就忽略了幽默最大的好处：幽默能让长相平平的人看起来更可爱，也能让呆板无趣的人看起来更有趣。
If you see humor as an optional form of entertainment, you're missing some of its biggest benefits: humor makes average-looking people look cute and uninteresting people seem entertaining.
你知道，任何在镜头前摆姿势的照片都会看起来既呆板又不自然。
You know, any picture of a person who poses for the camera would look dull and unnatural.
当然，像推崇呆板的写作一样，推崇枯燥无味的讲课也有好几年的历史了。
The cult of lecturing dully, like the cult of writing dully, goes back, of course, some years.
欧夜鹰发出呆板的嘎嘎声，使他觉得树林里到处都是搜查他的卫兵，正在向他逼近。
Night-jars, sounding their mechanical rattle, made him think that the wood was full of searching warders, closing in on him.
其他美国人常常认为阿米什人是历史遗迹，他们过着简单、呆板的生活，且坚持着麻烦而过时的习俗。
The Amish are often perceived by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs.
有多少次你因为会上演讲人的呆板而感到无聊？
How many times have you been bored rigid by conference speakers?
由于层层先例的累积使原则和章程变得僵化呆板了。
Principles and rules have petrified with the accumulated weight of precedent.
校园太呆板了，而耶鲁衫完美得几近纽约标准。
And it's near NYC which is perfect for when campus feels too stuffy.
如果你的生活过分地呆板，留一些时间出来，好好发泄一下。
If it's overly structured, set aside time for blowing off some steam.
阅读器发声准确清晰，抛弃了其他阅读软件那呆板机械的读音。
The device betrayed the stilted speech that is characteristic of most text-to-speech software, but nonetheless pronounced the words clearly and accurately.
问题之一是他缺乏灵感和力量，相反面容呆板的拉霍伊表现稍好。
One problem is his lack of inspiration and punchiness. But the colourless Mr. Rajoy is little better.
‘读书呆板而且无聊’，我们是在这样的假定上进行软件开发的。
“We are working on the premise that looking at a book is now seen as dull and boring, ” he said.
这个版本在词汇和词序的文字方面非常信达，结果英语是相当呆板的。
This version is very literal in vocabulary and word order, although the resulting English is quite wooden.
从前，由于呆板的发型和风格全无的着装，她看起来就像一个老妇女。
She used to come across like an old woman with her unflattering hairstyle and shapeless clothes.
感觉好像相配的外套和裙子就说明是过度依赖父母那种呆板的时尚观念。
It's as though matching jackets and skirts suggest an overreliance on parents' stiff fashion conventions.
我知道，一些演讲者因为害怕出状况而在演示过程中呆板的遵循演示文稿。
I know some speakers who are petrified of presenting demos for fear that something will go wrong.
评论家表示，智利需要重拾动力，同时走出他的老路如低下的生产率和呆板的劳动法。
Chile needs to regain its momentum, say critics, and work out kinks such as lost productivity and rigidity in labor laws.
齐达内球场下的平淡无奇延伸到他的衣柜里，简直是有些呆板、缺少想像力。
Zidane's off-field blandness extends to his wardrobe, which is just sort of dull and unimaginative.
“白色背景下的商业人士”看起来不错，但有点夸张了，显得有点呆板老套。
The “business people on white background” look is nice, but it’s overdone and tends to look a bit stock art-ish or flat out cliche.
竹子的棕褐色色调使音箱外表富有乡村特色，这是对呆板的黑色音箱的完美补充。
The tan hue of the bamboo gives speaker enclosures a rustic look, and are a perfect complement to conventional black speakers.
“我有点头晕——嗯——我想我到外面来会好些，”她呆板地说，说完就出去了。
'I was faint - and - I think I am better out o' doors, 'she said mechanically; and disappeared outside.
他的写作风格决不呆板枯燥，当然也不流于肤浅，而在写作界枯燥和肤浅是何其泛滥。
His writing is never dull, but nor is it superficial, in a field where both dullness and superficiality are common.
自那以后，思科很大程度上被看做地位低下的网络管道工：必不可少，但却呆板乏味。
Since then it has been regarded for the most part as a lowly network plumber: necessary, but dull.
基本上来说，思维导图摆脱了呆板的线性思考，唤醒创造力，使做笔记又成为一种乐趣。
Basically, mind mapping avoids dull, linear thinking, jogging your creativity and making note taking fun again.
我们在创造和重新发明大量新旧烟道式呆板遗留系统方面的几十年拼搏足以证明这项任务非常不易。
This is not an easy task, as demonstrated by our decades of struggling to create and reinvent numerous old and new, stove-piped rigid legacy systems.
但是一旦感知数据可以呆板地告诉人们该做什么和不做什么，潜在的系统滥用也是可能的。
But once sensor data can be used to tell people with dementia what to do and what not to do, the potential for abuse can become real.
但是一旦感知数据可以呆板地告诉人们该做什么和不做什么，潜在的系统滥用也是可能的。
But once sensor data can be used to tell people with dementia what to do and what not to do, the potential for abuse can become real.
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