英语释义

• the quality of being rash and foolish

• the trait of acting stupidly or rashly

• a stupid mistake

• foolish or senseless behavior

片语

pure folly十分愚蠢的行为

Their Folly他们荒唐

Teenagers Folly锦绣前程

Folly Landing城市

Buffetts Folly巴菲特的荒诞

folly folly愚蠢

folly sagacious愚笨的◇聪明的

Excessive folly过度的愚蠢

simplicity朴素；简易；天真；愚蠢

folly literature愚人文学

stupidity愚蠢；糊涂事

英汉例句

• what folly to let such a man chair the homeland security committee of the house of representatives.

  让这样一个人担任众议院国土安全委员会的主席是多愚蠢的举动啊。

• that it is folly is no reason that people won「t do it, of course.

  当然，这类荒唐事，人们不愿意这样做是不需要有什么理由的。

• presumption: when we think we already know it all. 「he who answers before listening—that is his folly and his shame」 (proverbs 18:13 niv).

  傲慢：当我们认为我们什么都知道的时候。「没听就回答---那是他的愚蠢和自负。」（箴言篇18：13 niv

• for almost a century and a half, hsbc’s strongest beliefs have not been in a product, person or geography, but in its own culture and in the folly of its rivals.

  在近一个半世纪中，汇丰最强大的理念不在于一个产品、一个人或一块区域，而在于其本身的企业文化和竞争对手的愚蠢。

• rich in oil and conservative in outlook, its rulers have viewed dubai’s penchant for frolic and folly with distaste and occasional envy.

  阿布扎比石油储量丰富，观点较为保守，其统治者认为迪拜的做法愚蠢且没有品位、偶尔还有些嫉妒之情。

• though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.

  你虽用杵将愚妄人与打碎的麦子一同捣在臼中，他的愚妄还是离不了他。

• despite the waste and folly of its bureaucracy, despite the slander and polarisation of its election campaigns, america」s system of government is extraordinarily robust and flexible.

  尽管它的官僚体制存在浪费和愚蠢，尽管其选举活动存在相互诽谤和两极化的情形，美国的政府体制却仍然格外强健和灵活。

• it could decide the episode only shows the folly of relying on finance and services to drive growth, as america and britain have.

  它可能会认定危机这一插曲只说明了，像英美这样依赖于金融和服务业来拉动经济是愚蠢的。

• here's why: trying to time the market is folly because for every buyer, there is a seller.

  原因如下：试图抓住市场是愚蠢的。因为有一 个买家，就有一个卖家。

• but second, it would be folly to put the burden of adjustment solely on them, for that would create a huge deflationary bias.

  第二，让那些国家单独承担调整的压力是愚蠢的，因为这会引发巨大的通货紧缩趋势。

• this is good news for stockmarkets in the short term, in that profits may remain high—or at least will not be undermined by the folly of executives.

  对于证券市场来说，这在短期内是利好消息，因为利润会持续处于高位，至少不会被高管们的愚蠢行为给糟蹋了。

• it’s folly to think that just because you’ve got this energy and enthusiasm that you’re going to be able to conquer all.

  她表示，“不要以为你拥有这种能力和热情，你就能够攻克所有的障碍。 这种想法也是十分愚蠢的。

• it is easy to believe wishfully that no one would ever code like this, but a casual perusal of a few coding-support websites is enough to demonstrate the folly of making such generalizations.

  虽然很容易一厢情愿地相信没有一个像这样的代码，但是对一些编码支持的网站研究足以证明作出如此归纳的愚蠢。

• to his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.

  说到他的太太，除了她的无知和愚蠢倒可以供他开心作乐之外，他对她就再没有别的恩情了。

• the gist of his argument is certainly valid: it is folly to think that god loves all alike, or that he is compelled by some rule of fairness to love everyone equally.

  他的论据的要点相当有根据：认为上帝平等的爱所有人，或他因为一些公平原则被迫去平等的爱每个人是很愚蠢的。

相似词

stupidity愚蠢；糊涂事

foolishness愚蠢；可笑

silliness愚蠢；糊涂

nonsense胡说！

stupidity愚蠢；糊涂事

haste赶快

foolery愚蠢的行为；愚蠢；蠢事

silliness愚蠢；糊涂

vanity虚荣心；空虚；浮华；无价值的东西

相反词

sagacity睿智；聪敏；有远见

wisdom(Wisdom)人名；(英)威兹德姆