These Foolish Things

常见例句

In these circumstances, people start to do really foolish things in the desperate hunt for higher interest rates.
在此环境下，人们在绝望地寻找着更高的收益率，并为此开始犯下着实愚蠢的错误。
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I know people want to find out how I could be so selfish and so foolish. People want to know how I could have done these things to my wife Elin and to my children.
我知道人们都想知道为什么我可以这么自私和愚蠢，人们想知道我怎么能对我的妻子埃琳和孩子们做出这样的事。
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There should have been no need for us still to defend these things that were defined nor to make a response to their foolish pretexts, nor for them to be still eager for quarrel.
我们原不必为了这些已经被公认（为正统）的事情辩解，或回应他们那些愚蠢的借口，也不需要跟他们不断的口角。
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He admits these "mad things" have been "irresponsible, foolish" given his importance to the Virgin empire, and to his second wife, Joan, and their two children.
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But the most compelling reason to think the release is risky, perhaps even foolish, is that it is almost impossible to get the timing of these things right.
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