I can't get the stupid thing open!

这破玩意儿我怎么也打不开！

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Every time I try to open a program, the stupid thing quits on me.

每次我想打开一个程序的时候，这个愚蠢的东西就会自动关机。

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By the end of the 4th hour of her calling me and our "imaginary" friends I was actually contemplating 'accidentally' dropping and breaking the stupid thing.

在结束了长达4个小时她对我以及“假想”朋友的呼叫之后，我真的在冥思苦想如何“不慎”摔坏这个讨厌的东西。

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One thing to realize, I told you the id is outrageously stupid.

需要注意的是，我之前说过本我是盲目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

While the audio quality and noise filtering have been wonderfully refined, I figure that I lose about a week per year searching for the stupid little thing.

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