Folly

(noun.) foolish or senseless behavior.

(noun.) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly.

(noun.) the quality of being rash and foolish; 'trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly'; 'adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness'.

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• In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The matter begins and ends with the boy's own perversity and folly. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But why, said she, should it be pure folly? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I don't defend the folly of playing you a trick under the circumstances. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• What can equal the folly of our two relations? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She thought it was her signor marito who had sent them, and she cried a little and said it was a folly. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And ignorance and folly are inanitions of the soul? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I never was so ashamed in my life to hear a man talk folly as I have been to hear you talk this day to the present company. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• However, if I get well over this folly, I will for the rest of my life reign lord paramount or nothing. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• My dear Fanny, replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the end, let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I did not, said Worcester, half indignantly, I did not know that I was quite a fool; and at all events, I shall not intrude my folly on you if I am. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I have committed follies, gentlemen,' said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, 'and I ought to bear the consequences without repining. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• No: If I must be a fool, as all those who reason or believe any thing certainly are, my follies shall at least be natural and agreeable. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I am conscious of my own past follies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• With all his faults and follies, a sweet and pleasant gentleman! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She could make a butt of Fred when he was present, but she did not enjoy his follies when he was absent. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When I think of my past follies, and my present state, I am sure it would be best for you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Plato in a hyperbolical and serio-comic vein exaggerates the follies of democracy which he also sees reflected in social life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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