1. To that end, Wadia and his colleagues found that iron pyrite—better known as fool's gold—was several orders of magnitude better than any of the alternatives, based on both cost and abundance.

为了这一目的，瓦迪亚和他的同事们发现硫化铁--- 俗称傻瓜金，从储量及价格上优于其它任何替代材料几个数量级之多。

2. Biting down on a hunk of metal is more likely something someone might have done during the Gold Rush to test whether the shiny golden rock they just panned for was actually pyrite or fool's gold.

对着金属大力的咬下去，这更像是淘金热时期的人做的事情，目的是测试刚淘出来的金光闪闪的石块是否只是黄铁矿或（或者叫愚人金）。

3. Fool's Gold tells how a team at J. P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them.

《蠢人的黄金》讲述大摩的一个团队如何宣扬信贷衍生品，以及后来在世界上其他银行几乎被他们毁灭之前，却忧心忡忡的抽身而去。