McDermott and three colleagues spend their time trying to predict what policy makers are going to do, whether those actions are intelligent or insane.

麦克德莫特和三位同事花费大量时间，试图预测未来决策者将采取什么行动，无论这些行动是合理还是疯狂。

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In my opinion, anyone who takes another person's life intentionally is insane; however, that does not mean that the person isn't guilty of the crime or that he shouldn't pay society the debt he owes.

在我看来，任何故意夺走他人生命的人都是疯子；然而，这并不意味着这个人没有犯罪，或者不应该向社会偿还债务。

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You never know which person is going to show up—the nice, benevolent manager or the insane, angry hophead.

你永远不知道他将以哪种形象出现，是一团和气的经理还是暴怒的瘾君子。

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There are stories, horrible stories, some in the twentieth century, about children who are locked away by insane or evil parents and have never learned to speak.

有一些很可怕的故事,其中的一些讲述的是在二十世纪里,被精神失常或邪恶的父母锁起来的儿童,他们不曾学会说话

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But who began to divide them up into early and late elements, which I thought drove the field of classics insane for about 100 years, while folks argued about the unity of Homer, the unity or not the unity of one of the poems and so on.

他的成就在于第一个将其分成早期和晚期,此举颠覆了古典主义长达一个世纪,那时的人们对于荷马史诗中诗歌,是否具有同一性有过激烈的争论

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Remember, automobiles and radios all began with a simple, impossible or insane idea.

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My vow must have seemed to you extremely cruel, or insane.

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Instead, it's just a bit of grandstanding thrown in, apparently to show how brave and macho -- or stupid, or insane -- Cruise and Woo can be.

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