And they murmured amongst themselves: "What is the good of this old man and his silly lanthorn?"

他们相互间低声抱怨说：“这个老头儿和他那只愚蠢的灯笼有什么好的呢？”

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As for the silly costume, he is made to wear it for a war-bond drive that reinvents the montage sequences of 1940s cinema as an intricately layered 3d musical number, "Star Spangled Man".

兜售战争债券时他被要求穿上那套滑稽的衣服，重现了20世纪40年代电影蒙太奇，一幕幕镜头连成了一首精心制作的3d主题曲-星条旗男人。

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And the Professor, who was a very remarkable man, didn't tell them not to be silly or not to tell lies, but believed the whole story.

而教授呢，他是一个非常了不起的人，他并没教训他们别瞎说，或者别说谎，而是相信了整个故事。

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Critics utterly savaged the cross-dressing comedy, and audiences who had been willing to laugh at the silly antics of Sandler's amateur man-baby characters decided they had had enough.

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