As this was an inane and unanswerable argument Benjamin made no reply, and from that time on a chasm began to widen between them.

这一番无理之词让本杰明哑口无言。从这时起两个人之间的关系开始出现了裂痕。

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"The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful," says Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor who is an expert on the Internet.

“让Twitter如此强大的特质正是它表面上的空洞和不完整，”哈佛大学法学教授Jonathan Zittrain如是说，他同时也是互联网领域的专家。

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It also arranged for student exchanges and a few other such rather inane measures.

它也安排了交换生项目和其它几种诸如此类的确切地说是空洞的措施。

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Scott is a talented salesman with an inane outlook on managing a business.

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At a time, where most agree that government is over reaching and when the economic bright spots are our innovation sectors, it seems incredible that this inane proposal choking a fast-developing new technology with an old technology would not pass the hee-haw test.

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Many staffers were dismayed to learn our pages were going to be turned over to a propagandist hack from the far-right fringe for what turned out to be a stupefyingly inane, quasi-racist bomb-toss at our president.

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