silliness

1. ADJ-GRADED 愚蠢的;幼稚的;荒唐的
   If you say that someone or something is silly, you mean that they are foolish, childish, or ridiculous.
   1. My best friend tells me that I am silly to be upset about this...
      我最好的朋友说我要是为这事而沮丧难过就真够傻的。
   2. You silly boy; why did you tramp about so long in the cold?...
      你这个傻孩子，为什么大冷天走这么大老远的路？
   3. I thought it would be silly to be too rude at that stage...
      我原本觉得在那个时候太粗鲁会很愚蠢。
   4. That's a silly question.
      那是个愚蠢的问题。
   5. ...a silly hat.
      可笑的帽子
2. ADJ (喝得)昏头昏脑的;(笑得)傻里傻气的
   If you do something such as laugh or drink yourself silly, you do it so much that you are unable to think or behave sensibly.
   1. Right now the poor old devil's drinking himself silly...
      这会儿那可怜的老家伙又喝得糊里糊涂的了。
   2. Poor Donald's been worrying himself silly.
      可怜的唐纳德一直在杞人忧天。

1. Now wh-what is more important, love or silliness?
   什么在你生命中是最重要的，是爱情还是愚蠢？
2. For that one moment he dropped his silliness and spoke with dignity.
   那一刻，他甩掉了他的愚笨，尊严地做了回答。
3. He said the country faces "enormous challenges" and he has better things to do than deal with the "silliness" about whether he was born in the United States.
   他说，国家面临巨大挑战，他有比处理关于他是否在美国出生的愚蠢问题更重要的事情要做。
4. We are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers, Mr Obama said on Wednesday. We do not have time for this kind of silliness.
   如果我们被杂耍表演和狂欢节拉客者分散注意力，我们将无法解决我们的问题，奥巴马周三表示。我们没有时间可以浪费在这种蠢事上。
5. We won't listen to any silliness.
   我们不愿再听到任何蠢事了。
6. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.
   惧怕改变使得他们对他人伪装，也对自己伪装，才得到某种满足，但在内心深处，他们却渴望笑得自在，糊糊涂涂再活一次。
7. One of its implicit premises was the silliness of the pandemic of American nostalgia, especially for a culturally dubious decade that had ended less than a decade earlier.
   其中一个暗含的前提是美式怀旧蔓延的愚蠢，特别是对于一个文化上非常模糊的十年的怀旧，而它的终结甚至还不到十年。
8. For a philosopher there is more grass growing down in the valley of silliness than up on the barren heights of cleverness.
   对于一个哲学家来说，愚蠢的绿色山谷下比荒芜的聪明的高峰上有着更多的青草在生长。
9. TO love in our teens always ends on giving our101% effort TO show our silliness in love* in witnessing the'tears of joy '.
   十几岁的我们总是不断为爱付出，却由于我们对爱的荒唐误解，让爱止于那101%的努力面前&这一切，都被欣喜的泪水记下。
10. Chandler: Well, we are fond of the silliness, but we also have a soft spot for the love.
    钱德乐：哦，我们喜欢愚蠢，不过我们更喜欢爱情。
11. I'm spewing coffee out my nose at the silliness of it all as I write.
    我喷出的咖啡我的鼻子在愚蠢的这一切，我写。
12. With inadvertent silliness, North Korea had earlier chaired a UN plenary session on disarmament.
    可笑的是，朝鲜早些时候碰巧还主持了一场关于裁军的联合国全体会议。
13. I'm getting annoyed by all this silliness.
    这些愚蠢之举使我烦透了。
14. Bundled on to a plane to West Germany in1974, he turned his fire on other targets, thundering against materialism, shallowness and the silliness of popular Western culture.
    1974年他匆忙的登上去西德的飞机，那时候起他将怒火转向了别的目标，他连连抨击唯物主义和浅薄无力的西方流行文化。
15. It was only in retrospect that the silliness became profound.
    只是在回顾中才意识到，当时看似愚蠢的言行意义却如此深刻。
16. Mercifully, the silliness of these juvenile cards stopped by about age12, but the agony and the ecstasy of course continued.
    谢天谢地，在大约12岁的时候，这些少年之间送贺卡的愚蠢游戏结束了。当然，内心的痛苦与狂喜还继续着。
17. In Canada, during a nationwide wrangle combining anger and silliness, the country adopted a new national flag.
    在加拿大，新国旗的式样，在一场交织着愤懑和愚蠢的全国性辩论中通过。
18. You'd think this would dissuade teams from offering it in all but the most overwhelming bargains, but once the silliness of free-agent season starts, it seem they just can't help themselves.
    也许你会觉得那样会使得球队在获取这些势不可挡的廉价品时有所畏惧，但是一旦愚蠢的自由球员市场开启，他们就会情不自禁。
19. World Cup depends all too much on the weaknesses of the officiating and the silliness of the rules.
    世界杯的结果再次被拙劣的判罚和愚蠢的规则所左右。
20. Debate continues as to whether the smallness of the number demonstrates that railways were not important to US economic development, or just the silliness of attempting that type of calculation at all; I incline towards the latter view.
    争论仍在继续：到底是数据的渺小表明铁路对美国经济发展不重要，还是这种计算根本就是愚蠢的？我倾向于后一种观点。
21. Earnest affectation is anyhow better than frivolous silliness.
    认真的矫情也比轻佻的愚蠢来得好些。
22. He's being silly, because he knows that we enjoy the silliness!
    他故意发傻，因为他知道我们喜欢傻事。
23. He points out that a great book& I will quote this and then I'll leave you-is great in part because it can't possibly be reduced to the silliness that the advocates of Western Civ attach to it.
    他指出，一部大作品，我将会引用这个，然后你们自己看-，一部大作品之所以伟大，部分因为，倡导西方文明的人不可能将它说成是愚蠢的。
24. This is not actually one story but two, joined by exposition that is only tolerable because of the over-the-top silliness of the performers involved and the goofy lines they are fed.
    实际上，这不是一个故事，而是两个，只不过被说明性的文字连接在一起了，但演员们的搞笑演出以及滑稽的台词弥补了这样的不足。
25. Played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.
    为了不自然的、看似诙谐的效果使他们所演角色的毫无意义。
26. But put aside the silliness and it is quite nice that people are writing about ways to save marriage-theirs, or somebody else's-because marriage is good for people.
    但抛开萨瑟兰的古怪不说，人们现在写如何挽救婚姻的文章是件好事。因为婚姻对人们是有好处的。
27. The principle of charity tells you that your interlocutor silliness is less likely than your bad interpretation.
    清晰度准则告诉你们，与其断定你的交谈者太愚蠢，不如考虑是不是自己对于对方的理解太糟糕。
28. Let me be clear that I don't buy into any of this silliness from some pundits about how winning such a prestigious honor could backfire on Obama.
    我并不赞同一些学者认为这一荣誉会给奥巴马带来负面影响的观点。
29. Silliness, ignorance and indolence are very costly!
    愚蠢、知和懒惰是要付出代价的！
30. Laugh is an expression of happiness, joy, silliness or fun.
    笑是用来表达幸福，喜悦，可笑或玩笑等的表情！

noun

1. an impulsive scatterbrained manner

   Synonym:    giddiness

2. a ludicrous folly
   1. the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior

   Synonym:    absurdityfatuityfatuousness