That people waste hours huddled around a wooden box listening to someone talking at them burbling inanities from somewhere else.

虚度大好光阴，围坐在一个木头盒旁，听千里之外的人说些无聊的话。

The inanity of it really works, though.

尽管内容空洞，但效果却出奇地好。

I don't think any of you felt terribly threatened by some of the inanity that we can see out there.

你们中没有人会因外界一些荒谬言论而感到严重威胁。

And he was going to vent his aggravation by burning that document, a bonfire of the inanities.

他打算通过焚烧那份文件发泄他的烦躁，一场愚蠢的篝火。

I mean, at the policy level, at the identity level, like — here's an example of somebody who overcame their low SAT score, but it just kind of underscores the inanity of all this.

的意思是， 在政策层面， 在身份层面，比如——这里有一个， 有人克服了 SAT 分数低，但这只是强调了这一切的无意义。

And so, thousands and thousands of telephone calls crisscross the city each morning in a groping for human contact away from the roar of the mimeograph machines and the hollow thunder of ghost-written inanities.

因此，每天早上，成千上万的电话在城市中纵横交错， 以寻找人与人之间的联系， 远离油印机的轰鸣声和代笔的空洞雷声。

In such an atmosphere it is possible to be serious without pompousness and flippant without inanity.

在这样的氛围中， 可以严肃而不浮夸， 轻率而不空虚。

'Do my eyes deceive me, or is this the Jagson whose name in its inanity is so appropriate to the bearer?

“是的眼睛欺骗了， 还是这个 Jagson 的名字在它的愚蠢中非常适合持有者？