I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.

我不懂俄语，所以我不用俄语读,而就用这个英语中通行的俄语替代词,这样感觉是不是挺傻的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

My point here is not to say, oh, you idiot, Plato, why didn't you think of radio waves?

我这里不是想说，柏拉图，你真傻，你为什么没想到无线电波呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In problem set 5, last year I took a stroll around campus with one of the teaching fellows with his digital camera, we shot photographs of identifiable but non-obvious spots on campus and then like an idiot I always seem to erase my compact flashcard accidentally.

在习题集5中,去年我和另一位老师一起带着数码相机在校园里闲逛，我们在校园里没有目的地乱拍,像一个傻瓜一样,我一不小心清空了,我的便携闪存卡。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, the next lines in Homer say that one soldier popped up and said, "Of all the great things Odysseus has done for us here, that was greatest, to shut up a big mouth idiot like Thersites."

书中接着写道,一名士兵站了出来,他说,"在奥德修斯为我们做的一切伟大事迹中,其中最了不起的,就是让忒尔西忒斯这样多嘴的白痴闭上嘴

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, you might think me an idiot, right?

现在，你们可能觉得我这个做法很愚蠢，是吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Whoever wrote this remark is an idiot.

无论谁写的这条评论，他就是个白痴。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选