1.When the conversations moves on to television, as it does regularly…(television and movies being the lingua franca of boys from six to that ever-moving outer boundary of adolescence)…, the boy is a dunce.
当谈话从球赛转向视频游戏时，这个孩子成了一个失败者；当交谈继续下去、进而转向电视的时候——就像通常情况那样（在6岁至青春期之前的男孩子眼里，电视和电影是同一种东西）——这个男孩成了一个傻瓜。
2.That puts Spain near the back of the European Union class for foreign languages, beaten in the dunce stakes by English-speaking Britain and Ireland.
而这也几乎使得西班牙成为了欧盟各成员国中国民外语水平最低的国家之一，甚至还不如英国和爱尔兰。
3.The dunce was easily taken in.
那笨蛋很容易就受骗了。
4.A dunce; a fool.
笨蛋；傻瓜
5.Why, he always used to laugh at you as the dunce of the family!"
哼，他总是取笑你，说你是家里的笨蛋！”
6.A dunce never learns something.
傻瓜永远学不会。
7.When a true genius appear in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunce is all in confederacy against him.
当一个真正的天才出现于世上的时候，你可以从下列的迹象把他认出来—笨蛋们群起而反对他。
8.The wise man knows he knows nothing; the dunce thinks he knows all.
聪明人知道自己不懂什么,蠢人则认为自己什么都懂.
