That people waste hours huddled around a wooden box listening to someone talking at them burbling inanities from somewhere else.

虚度大好光阴，围坐一个木头盒子旁，听千里之外的人说些无聊的话。

In such an atmosphere it is possible to be serious without pompousness and flippant without inanity.

这样的氛围中， 可以严肃浮夸， 轻空虚。

And he was going to vent his aggravation by burning that document, a bonfire of the inanities.

他打算通过焚烧这份文件来发泄他的愤怒，就像一场愚蠢的篝火。

'Do my eyes deceive me, or is this the Jagson whose name in its inanity is so appropriate to the bearer?

“我的眼睛欺骗了我， 还这个 Jagson 的名字它的愚蠢中非常适合持有者？

I mean, at the policy level, at the identity level, like — here's an example of somebody who overcame their low SAT score, but it just kind of underscores the inanity of all this.

我的意思， 策层面， 身份层面，比如——这里有一个例子， 有人克服了 SAT 分数低，但这只强调了这一切的无意义。

And so, thousands and thousands of telephone calls crisscross the city each morning in a groping for human contact away from the roar of the mimeograph machines and the hollow thunder of ghost-written inanities.

因此，每天早上，成千上万的电话城市中纵横交错， 以寻找人与人之间的联系， 远离油印机的轰鸣声和代笔的空洞雷声。

I was in terror lest Sandip Babu should take me for a shrinking, old-fashioned bundle of inanity. But, for the life of me, I could not sparkle in repartees such as might charm or dazzle him.

我很害怕 Sandip Babu 会把我当成一个萎缩的、老式的空洞的束缚。但，就我的生活言，我无法诸如可能吸引他或使他眼花缭乱的回答中闪闪发光。