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，围坐在一个木头盒子旁，听千里之外人说些无聊话。

The inanity of it really works, though.

尽管内容空洞，但效果却出奇地好。

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

在这样氛围中， 可以严肃而不浮夸， 轻率而不空虚。

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

通过焚烧那份文件来发泄烦躁，一场愚蠢篝火。

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

认为你中没有人会因为外界一些荒谬言论而感到严重威胁。

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

“是睛欺骗了， 还是这个 Jagson 名字在它愚蠢中非常适合持有者？

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，成千上万电话在城市中纵横交错， 以寻找人与人之间联系， 远离油印机轰鸣声和代笔空洞雷声。

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.

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

I was in terror lest Sandip Babu should take me for a shrinking, old-fashioned bundle of inanity. But, for the life of me, I could not sparkle in repartees such as might charm or dazzle him.

很害怕 Sandip Babu 会把当成一个萎缩、老式空洞束缚。但是，就生活而言，无法在诸如可能吸引或使花缭乱回答中闪闪发光。