It was something else--as if you knew something about me. I don't know what you can have known. There was very little to know about me, except that I was intensely silly. Really, I was awfully silly that summer at Baden--you would n't believe how silly I was. But I don't see how you could have known that-- before you had spoken to me. It came out in my conversation-- it came out awfully. My mother was a good deal disappointed in Mrs. Vivian's influence; she had expected so much from it.英文原著 · 《Confidence》
One day the Fairy Visitor who looked after the flowers in that part heard the silly blossoms crying, and stopped to ask what was the matter. When she heard the story she told them they were very foolish and discontented, and that the cuckoo was a most mischievous bird and liked to get people into trouble; but the daffodils would not listen. So knowing there is nothing so likely to cure silly flower as to give them their own silly way, she said - "Very well, my dears, you want to be girls, and girls you shall be."英文原著 · 《The Grey Brethren》
"She's always doing something silly," snapped Lavinia. "My mamma says that way of hers of pretending things is silly. She says she will grow up eccentric."英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"Yes," assented B. "You can put in that if you like. There is no harm in it. And then you can go on to speak of the play itself, and give your impressions concerning it. Never mind their being silly. They will be all the better for that. Silly remarks are generally more interesting than sensible ones."英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
These rules are equally good in rheumatic as in consumptive cases; you will therefore, I hope, strictly observe them; for I take it for granted that you are above the silly likings or dislikings, in which silly people indulge their tastes, at the expense of their health.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1749》
'Of course you think me rather silly to want to talk so much with silly people,' Edith went on. 'But then there's generally some amusement to be got, you know. I don't take life quite so seriously as you do. People are people, after all; it's good fun to see how they live and hear how they talk.'英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
If thinking that trying to protect Mary with a ring of steel is silly, then yes, I am very silly.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》