It could have been the "I-don 't-want-to-explain-this," variety of lie, or the "Ambushed! Play dumb!" variety or it could have been true.

可能是“我不想解释这个”之类的借口，或者是“装傻”，也或者可能就是真的。

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T is but the living who are dumb.

而闷不做声的却是活人。

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And this is very much deliberate on our part so you just don't feel that inevitable angst when it comes to asking what you think is a dumb question and probably isn't, but you don't need to disclose your name.

这在我们的角度上来说是非常深思熟虑的,所以你们不要认为那是必然的麻烦,当问了一个你认为是愚蠢的问题,或者可能不是，但是你不必要,公开你的名字。

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Instead of taking that one vase, the thief could take two radios. And get more value. So the greedy thief, in some sense, gets the wrong answer. But maybe isn't so dumb.

这个贼可以带走两个收音机，这样总价值更大，因此这个贪婪的贼,在某种意义上没有得到正确的答案,但是可能它也不笨。

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So if Pepsi is dumb enough to price above monopoly, sure I will undercut Pepsi but I won't undercut Pepsi by a penny, I'll undercut Pepsi all the way down to the monopoly price and make monopoly profits.

如果百事笨到把价格设的高于垄断价格,我当然要定价比百事低,但不是低一点,我要把价格设得比百事低直至垄断价格,并获取垄断收益

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No, that once-wealthy midwestern widow wasn't dumb just careless, like a lot of other smart people.

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You're being a parent, and monitoring your kid, making sure they don't do anything dumb.

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I'd rather have Kevin Durant and the Thunder than wear my own dumb hipster T-shirt.

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