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Her impatience when she sometimes asked me to go on reading seemed to come from the hope that all this imbecility would eventually play itself out.
当她要我继续朗读下去的时候，她就显得很不耐烦，并且希望这一切愚蠢的行为最终会消失殆尽的。
The clerical elite was scandalised: it towered over the churches, did not speak to God, and reflected “imbecility, bad taste and foolish arrogance”.
教士精英们愤然：它远远高出教堂，却不与上帝交谈，并表现出“低能，坏品味和愚蠢的傲慢”。
If hundreds of civilians are killed, and hundreds of thousands put to flight, so be it: in war, under Israel's philosophy, moderation is imbecility.
如果数以百计的平民死去，成百上千的人要逃难，那也是必须的：在以色列人的哲学中，战争中的“适度”就是无能。
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