It's folly to think that we have about us protective spirits who might actually keep us from harm.

认为真的有神灵在周围,庇佑我们不受伤害是愚蠢的。

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I wanted him to consider the folly of his decision.

我想让他再考虑下他荒唐的决定。

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Charlie you often complain that accountants are the root of much evil and also even more folly.

查理，你经常讲到会计是当今,糟糕经济的根源。

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When we separated banking from investment banking, on the theory the investment banking had natural proclivity to get from another folly to do it.

当我们把银行业务从投行分离出去的时候，由于理论上说投行的本性决定了其容易犯错误,决定了其容易犯错误。

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So if sin and folly get punished we are in available punishment.

如果要惩罚罪恶和愚蠢的话,我们所做的也会受到相应的惩。

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And finally they could not hold their traders report the same kind of income other people reported so they threw out the sound accounting and went to the folly accounting.

最后，他们无法像其他人那样,报告相同数目的收入，因此他们,抛弃了健全的会计制度,而转向了愚蠢的会计制度。

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