Why do we turn into complete dullards when faced with bright packaging and flashy advertisements? 当我们面对一个包装精美,闪亮的广告时会完全变成一个的傻瓜。
Hannibal Lecter: Don't you understand, Will? You caught me because we are very much alike. Without our imaginations, we'd be like all those other poor dullards. 汉尼拔·莱克特:你不明白吗,威尔?你抓到我是因为我们很相像。如果没有那些想象力,我们就像是那些可怜的蠢货。
To Alibaba, which fosters the quasi-religious culture seen in some US technology companies, such questioning is seen as an impertinent affront by box-ticking dullards. 对于拥有与某些美国科技企业类似的准宗教文化的阿里巴巴来说,这种质疑被视为来自官僚主义笨蛋的无礼冒犯。
But if you look only at the performance of the average American high school student on international tests, you would think it was a nation of dim-witted dullards. 但只要你看一下美国中学生在国际测试中的平均成绩,你就会觉得这是一个弱智的蠢汉国度。