But none at all, or too much, can make you a dullard.

但绝不碰酒或纵酒过度的结果却与之相反。

Rope work is not an art for dullards.

绳艺不是给蠢汉看的艺术。

People would focus on nothing other than earning money, he feared, turning them into dullards (just look at Americans, he warned).

他担心，人们除了赚钱以外什么都不关心，这会让他们变成傻瓜（看看美国人就知道了，他警告说）。

How can brainless dullards like us ever hope to entertain Mr Blake?

我们这等俗人哪能入布雷克先生的法眼？

How can two brainless dullards like us ever hope to entertain Mr Blake?

我们这等俗人哪能入布雷克先生的法眼？

" Just a moment. You might explain to a dullard just why these five pennies should have been important" .

“等一下。你可以向笨蛋解释为什么这五个便士应该很重要” 。

Don't be afraid. - But, we are afraid! - How can brainless dullards like us ever hope to entertain Mr Blake?

别怕啊 -但我们的确很怕我们这等俗人哪能入布雷克先生的法眼？

Now it is always hard for superior wits to understand the fury roused by their exposures of the stupidities of comparative dullards.

现在，高智商总是很难理解他们揭露比较笨蛋的愚蠢行为所激起的愤怒。

Plot is, I think, the good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel artificial and labored.

在我看来，好作家唯有不得已时才求助于情节构思，而愚人却把它当作第一选择。这种构思出来的故事通常会令人感觉造作不自然。

" Cousin, " Ser Brynden corrected. " Brother to Lord Tywin's late wife, so twice related. An old man and a bit of a dullard, but he has a son, Ser Daven, who is more formidable" .

" 是他堂哥，" 布林登爵士纠正，" 泰温大人亡妻的哥哥，所以是亲上加亲。但此人已老，脑袋又向来不太好使。可他有个儿子达冯爵士，据说骁勇善战。"