A young man was considered a half-wit in the village.

村子里有个年轻人被认为是个傻子。

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The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit .

按程序狗被释放了，他好象非常高兴，很明显他太愚蠢了。

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I could see from first glance that he was a half-wit, but then half wits sometimes have the genius to amass a fortune.

我一眼便看出他是一个笨蛋，不过笨蛋有时却具有聚起一大笔财富的天赋。

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If you are a politician and are any kind of a wit at all - even half of one - you can expect to be lionised in the press by bored political correspondents who will guffaw at your bon mots because the rest of what passes for gaggery generally strikes a bum note.

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