Scrapping the census in favour of rolling surveys of a portion of the population was always a silly idea.

取消人口普查，转而赞成对部分人口进行滚动调查的想法是愚蠢的。

That was not my plan, 'cause now I actually need to do something with the silly idea I started.

这不在我的计划内，因为现在我确实需要用我一开始的那个愚蠢想法做点什么了。

It was, you know, a silly idea.

你知道，这是一个愚蠢的想法。

I had a silly idea we were being followed.

我有一个愚蠢的想法， 我们被跟踪了。

Emma thought that was a silly idea.

艾玛认为这是一个愚蠢的想法。

This silly idea that people are going to come to some store they 've never been to because it's more expensive?

人们会出入一家自己没去过的店 只是因为它昂贵 这种想法太愚蠢了？

Okay, so today's situation: I have a friend called Rideon who likes coming up with some pretty silly ideas some of the time.

好的，所以今天的情况：我有一个名叫Rideon的朋友喜欢在某些时候提出一些非常愚蠢的想法。

I'm going Korean on the wings, Japanese on the breast, Southern USA on the thighs, and Austrian on the drumsticks, silly idea, isn't it?

我的鸡翅是韩国风味，鸡胸是日本风味，大腿是美国南部鸡，鸡小腿是奥地利鸡，愚蠢的想法，不是吗？

I had a housemate who felt like men's pants didn't fit, of all things, which I thought was a silly idea at the time.

我有一个室友觉得男式裤子不合身，尤其是，我当时认为这是一个愚蠢的想法。

" Ridiculous" more recently has been used to mean an idea that is unreasonable or perhaps even impossible, so much so that you think it's a silly idea.

“荒谬”最近被用来表示一个不合理甚至不可能的想法，以至于你认为这是一个愚蠢的想法。

Perhaps, for the good of the vast majority of people on Earth who already realize this clock switching is a silly idea, we should truly seize the day and get ourselves to permanent DST ASAP.

也许，为了地球上绝大多数人的利益，他们已经意识到这种时钟切换是一个愚蠢的想法，我们应该真正抓住这一天，让我们自己尽快处于永久的夏时制中。