Feeling the fool, I pretended to go along with the joke realizing then that my question was stupid.

我感到自己有点傻，便假装很欣赏这个笑话，心里却意识到我问了个蠢问题。

youdao

It injured the frauds some; but the old fool he bulled right along, spite of all the duke could say or do, and I tell you the duke was powerful uneasy.

这些话叫骗子们有些招架不住了，不过那个老傻瓜不管公爵怎么个说法，或者怎么做法，还是一个劲地坚决要干下去。

youdao

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

你虽用杵、愚妄人与打碎的麦子一同捣在臼中、的愚妄还是离不了他。

youdao

Sooner or later a big enough fool will always come along.

ECONOMIST: The long arm of the celestial repairman