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follies n.〔用作單數〕活報劇;時事諷刺劇。

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Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth 記得年輕時所作蠢事的人是幸福的。

Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost 消磨于惡習或愚行的時間是加倍的損失。

As for the scent - bottle , that was her own folly 至于那瓶香水,那全是她的不是。

We will do our best to pull him back from his folly 我們將盡力使他不再干蠢事。

The exaggerated folly of the threat, the passionate gesture that accompanied it, the mad melodramatic words made life seem more vivid to her . 這個恐嚇似乎傻得厲害,而且他在講的時候還伴以激烈的手勢,還有他這些瘋狂的聳人聽聞的話,這一切都使她感到生活比以往顯得更逼真了。

As writers, they cherish economy, and witty phrases, they are often bitter, like bierce and lardner, but their rage at human folly has to be disguised and made entertaining . 他們在寫作上喜歡簡潔機智的詞句;他們往往心存不滿(如比爾斯和拉德納),但他們對于人類虛偽的忿恨,卻須加以偽裝,出之趣筆。

With love shall life roll on gloriously from year to year, like the voice of some great music that has power to hold the hearer's heart poised on eagles' wings above the sordid shame and folly of the earth . 有了愛情,生活就會永遠甜美、歡暢,象那些不朽的樂章,將聽眾的心靈陶醉,仿佛乘上飛鷹的翅膀,翱翔于人世間的卑劣行徑和愚昧無知之上。

Now i saw the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost; and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it . 我現在才明白,開始做一件事的時候,若不是預先計算一下需要多少代價,若是不預先對自己的力量做一個正確的估計真是太愚蠢了。

Bitterly i cursed my folly in having become a party to such a mad undertaking which could, i saw, only end in our deaths in this ghastly land . 我痛罵自己的愚蠢,竟然會參與這種喪失理智的舉動,這種只能以葬身在這地獄般的地方而告終的舉動。

When he was retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures . 當他獨處沉思時,他就象一個光環繞身的神靈,沒有任何哀思或愚念敢闖入這一光環。

This, however, formed a part of the bitter cup which she was doomed to drink, to atone for crimes and follies to which she had no accession . 可是,這是她命中注定要喝的一杯苦酒,從而清償與她毫不相關的罪過和愚蠢。

She had read of great painters whose parents had opposed their wish to study, the event had shown with what folly . 她在書本上看到過偉大畫家的父母反對他們學習繪畫的愿望,結果證明了這些父母的目光多么短淺。

Now the people sneer at me-the very hills and sky seem to laugh at me till i blush shamefully for my folly . 現在,人們在譏笑我,山川和天空也似乎在嘲笑我,直到我為自己的愚蠢而羞愧得滿面通紅。

But when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame . 但是,如果他們的能力有所不及,卻千方百計硬是要這樣干的話,那么,這就是錯誤而且要受到非難。

He was so well acquainted with the turf, the gambling-table, the cockpit, and every worse rendezvous of folly and dissipation . 他一直在賽馬場、賭桌、斗雞場以及浪蕩揮霍的場所廝混。

He silently cursed his own folly wondering whether, at this stage, he should go upstairs or stay well away . 他心里在暗暗咒罵自己愚蠢地徘徊,決定不了到底上樓去好,還是遠遠避開好。

I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him . 他的舉動使我看透他的性格,立刻看出要遷就他,那才傻哩。

He was wild enough and obstinate enough to commit any folly when a woman he loved was in the case . 他本來就不顧一切,執迷不悟,一個女人合了他的意,他什么傻事也干得出。

Their master, the king, was indulgent to their follies and sure to remit their fines . 他們的主子國王既然縱容他們的種種蠢行,一定也會豁免他們的罰金。