These Foolish Things

基本解釋

In these circumstances, people start to do really foolish things in the desperate hunt for higher interest rates.
在此環(huán)境下，人們在絕望地尋找著更高的收益率，竝爲此開始犯下著實愚蠢的錯誤。
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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.
我知道人們都想知道爲什麼我可以這麼自私和愚蠢，人們想知道我怎麼能對我的妻子埃琳和孩子們做出這樣的事。
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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.
我們原不必爲了這些已經被公認（爲正統(tǒng)）的事情辯解，或廻應他們那些愚蠢的借口，也不需要跟他們不斷的口角。
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