" I particularly enjoyed your description of me as an obsolete dingbat."

“我特别爱读你把我描写成一个僵化的老疯子的那一段。”

Lao Tzu Many people are hijacked by the rigidity of their minds.

老子许多人被他们僵化的思想所禁锢。

But to avoid becoming misaligned, it's been developed to be incredibly rigid about its beliefs.

但为了避免错，它被研发成对其信仰无比的僵化。

But this is too rigid—even the Soviet Union limited itself to five-year plans.

但这一预算过僵化，连当初苏联（Soviet Union）所定的计划期限也仅为五年。

And the reason is the tax is too high and the bureaucracy is too great.

（目前困难的）原因在税收过高、体制过僵化。

Both suffer crippling rigidities in their economies.

两国经济体均严重僵化死板。但意大利的财政又有足够多不同，其经济体也有足够强的潜力。

It's too easy to say he's just ideologically rigid.

你可不能说他只思想僵化。

These seem to be what's called " fossilized mistakes" .

这些似乎所谓的“僵化的错”。

However, if you do have fossilized mistakes, you can correct them.

然而，如果你确实有僵化的错，你可以改正它们的。

And the consequence of this is a rigid lifestyle.

其结果僵化的生活方式。

So what causes rigidity in the mind?

那么，什么导致了思维僵化？

No, except that rigidity and closed minds can be detrimental.Not dogma but feeling is important.

不重要，只僵化和封闭的思想可能有害的。重要的不教条，而感觉。

Here we do not have a rigid bark, as you should not have a rigid ego.

这里的树皮并不僵化，正如你不应该有一个僵化的自我。

This does not mean that a stiff restraint should be used on either of your parts.

这并不意味着应该在你们的任何一方面套用僵化的约束。

As both Mr Keohane and Mr Yates emphasise, in Britain and America political divisions have ossified into tribal ones.

正如基奥恩和耶茨所强调的那样，在英国和美国，政治分歧已经僵化为部落分歧。

My thumb gets stiff like arthritis or something, like it literally stops moving. That's why I'm amazed.

我的拇指僵化，类似关节炎之类的疾病，也说它静止不动了。所以我才会感到吃惊。

Perhaps people's minds get hard like rock as they get older. They can't change how they think.'

也许人随着年龄的增加，头脑也僵化得象岩石了。他们改变不了自己的想法。”

At best, their dietary rigidity could limit their ability to reproduce or to care for their young.

即便作最乐的估计，它们这种僵化的食谱也会限制它们的繁殖能力或扶养后代的能力。

He said the denomination was too " rigid" and prevented women from being equal partners in marriage.

他说，这个教派太" 僵化" ，阻碍了女性成为婚姻中的平等伴侣。

And she also left behind a political system that is more deadlocked and deeply polarized than before.

还给英国人留下了一个比以前还要僵化，还要极端分化的政治体系。