Richard Burton, Rakish Star, Dies at 58
(Aug. 5, 1984)
It was the combination of my mother’s presence of mind and my devil-may-care activism which did the job: her wits and my guts, in other words.
这项工作的完成结合了妈妈的沉着和我不顾一切的行动主义：换句话说，她的智慧和我的勇气。
From a historical perspective, it seems on reflection that Japan’s nuclear energy policy has been conducted these past years on the principle of all guts and no wits. Otherwise, how could it be that there are so many nuclear power plants dotted around the country, all so close to the coastlines? How is it, if the relevant authorities had had their wits about them, that the supposedly multilayered mechanisms of protection surrounding the reactors seem not to have worked but to have failed all at once?
从历史的角度回顾一下，过去这些年来日本核能政策的实施似乎都建立在有勇无谋的原则 上。否则的话，这个国家怎么会有那么多核电站遍布在全国各地，而且距海岸线都那么近？如果相关部门有智慧的话，那么围绕核反应堆本应存在的多层保护机制怎 么会似乎没有起作用，而是突然失灵了？
What is the point of having different voices in the choir if they all sing out of tune in unison? It must have taken guts to promote such witless systems as the future way forward for Japanese energy policy.
如果大家全都跑调的话，那么存在不同的声音又有什么意义呢？把这种毫无智慧的体系推销为日本能源政策未来的前进方向肯定需要勇气，
devil-may-care
(dĕv'əl-mā-kâr')
adj.
- Heedless of caution; reckless.
- Jovial and rakish in manner.
rakish1
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Pronunciation: /ˈreɪkɪʃ
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rakish2
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Pronunciation: /ˈreɪkɪʃ
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(wĭt)
n.
- The natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence.
- Keenness and quickness of perception or discernment; ingenuity. Often used in the plural: living by one's wits.
- wits Sound mental faculties; sanity: scared out of my wits.
- The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things.
- One noted for this ability, especially one skilled in repartee.
- A person of exceptional intelligence.
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