1·If you fool about with matches, you'll end up getting burned.
如果你摆弄火柴，最后可能烧到自己。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Elizabeth: he's been a fool about so many things... but then, so have I.
伊丽莎白：他过去在很多事上都这么傻……不过我也是。
3·If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
如果你一开始没有成功，那就再试一次、再试两次。然后放弃。没必要为这变成傻瓜。
4·The monitor told his classmates not to fool about in the classroom while they should be reviewing their lessons.
班长叫同学们在应当复习功课的时候不要在教室里胡闹。
5·Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that!
说到用仙水治疣子，那真是个愚蠢的法子！
6·One CEO I consulted felt so strongly about it he told me I would be a fool to leave Compaq for Apple.
一个CEO也坚定地告诉我，如果我为了苹果公司离开Compaq是非常愚蠢的。
7·All these problems are about assessing risk, or predicting the future, which no one except a fool believes he can do without some margin of error.
所有这些问题都是关于风险评估和未来预测的，除了疯子，谁也不会觉得自己能做到分毫不差。
8·He constructed a series of simple tableaus about a character called the Fool.
他通过一系列简单的场面创造了一个名叫傻瓜的角色。
9·Both candidates hear voters complaining about these things all the time. And since neither of them is a fool, both crack their cheeks trying to sound sympathetic.
两位候选人都听到选民们一直在抱怨这些，而且由于他们都不是傻瓜，都极力鼓吹，企图让自己听起来富有同情心。
10·I can easily see - any fool would see it - that you've not breakfasted, as your teeth and mouth are absolutely clean, not a crumb about.
我轻轻松松就看到这些细节——任何傻瓜都看得见——你还没吃过早餐，因为你的牙齿和嘴角都很干净，没有一点儿面包屑。