He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect.

脑子里就想到这些年轻人也自负，举止无理，傲慢放肆，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护，似乎年长就是受人尊敬的理由。

Perhaps it is absurd, even fatuous, to contemplate if there is anything redemptive about touch.

思考触碰中是否存在任何救赎也是件荒谬、甚至愚不可及的事。

" Are you sorry I came? " Was I being intentionally fatuous?

“我赶过来，你会觉得扫兴吗？”我在故意装糊涂吗？

[laughter] Well, anyway, you've got the idea. That's fatuous love.

无论如何，你已经有了主意。 那是愚蠢的爱。

He really has — queer fatuous investigator! — an unusually sensitive touch for the human texture, and the specimens he gathers into his museum of heterogeneous memories have almost always some mark of the rare and chosen.

他真的有——古怪愚蠢的调查员！ - 对人体纹理异常敏感的触摸，以及他收集到异质记忆博物馆的标本几乎总是有一些稀有和精选的标记。

Their larders are swept and waiting, and the night after the lettuce seed bed has been watered down in the fatuous hope of its sprouting, the ants move in en masse and carry it home.

他们的储藏室已被打扫干净并等待着，生菜苗床在发芽的愚蠢希望中被浇水后的那个晚上，群结队地搬进来，把它带回家。

We obsessively go back over our slips and errors and contrast what did happen with what could so easily have been skirted if we had not been so fatuous and so witless.

我们痴迷地回顾我们的失误和错误， 并将已经发生的事情与如果我们不是那么愚蠢和愚蠢的话很容易被回避的事情进行对比。

This belief was as fatuous as the belief of most people that they could write if they cared to take the time for it.

这种信念与大多数人认为只要肯花时间就可以写作一样愚蠢。

Mr. Roebuck had been a tribune of the people, and, like tribunes of most other peoples, in growing old, had grown fatuous.

罗巴克先生曾是人民的保民官，并且像大多数其他民族的保民官一样，随着年龄的增长，变得愚蠢。

Even when it seems fatuous or irritating The need to adapt to change has not been confined to office work.

即使这看起来很荒谬或令人烦躁，适应变化的需要并不仅限于办公室工作。

He experienced a sudden anger at her: fatuous old witch with her mouth full of platitudes.

他突然对她感到愤怒：愚蠢的老巫婆，满嘴都是陈词滥调。

Whowas fooled by that fatuous legalism?

谁被这种愚蠢的律法主义所愚弄？