For the past 15 years or so, graduates have emerged blinking into the white light of a witless and capricious boom time.

过去的15年，愚昧而又变幻无常的繁荣时代晃花了毕业生们的眼。

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Only a teenage girl could turn that revelation into a source of shame and embarrassment. Anna sauntered up to my lunch table where I sat, witless and surrounded by friends.

只有处在青春期的女孩子才能把那看成一件又囧又丑陋的事情，安娜总是在我吃午饭的桌子四周围徘徊，有时发呆有时和朋友们扯淡，对着我桌子大声宣布到“查理，克莱尔给我们说你有个巨大的弟弟啊！”

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A shell took off his father's head, and the baby was just left in the arms of his father, and this child has subsequently become sort of witless.

一颗炮弹炸掉了他爸爸的头，婴儿就留在爸爸的怀里，后来这孩子就变得有点愚笨。

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In my first month in the New York office, I lost many a chargeable hour bored witless by other associates boasting of so many nights lost, weekends worked and holiday allowance left unused.

ECONOMIST: Letters

We are introduced to a band of former crime busters, now under threat: Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), the lithe but witless Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman), a moneyed fop named Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), and, lastly, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), who takes time off from merciless slaughter to narrate the proceedings.

NEWYORKER: Watchmen

Yet even deep cuts will help less than usual to cushion a recession caused by snarled-up credit markets and banks scared witless.

ECONOMIST: Public finances