That's my legacy, the dumbness. - No no.

－都是我的遗传，笨蛋基因 －不，不。

But on the few occasions when this had happened he could never think of anything to say and he suffered agonies of embarrassment at his dumbness.

可是除了偶尔一两次外，他跟她们在一起时往往不知道说什么好，所以总是破口无言，窘困得难受极了。

" I guess you're feeling pretty tired and hungry, " Matthew ventured to say at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of.

“我猜你觉得又累又饿，”马修终于大胆地说，用他能想到的唯一理由来解释她长时间的哑口无言。

It is perhaps logical, if unfortunate, for man to create God in his own image, but it is taking advantage of the creatures' dumbness to assign our complicated emotions to their simpler natures.

人类按照自己的形象创造上帝也许是合乎逻辑的， 但不幸的是， 这是在利用受造物的愚蠢将我们复杂的情感分配给它们更简单的本性。