Fortunately, for Basil Fawlty, he's not in real life, but in a comedy by John Cleese and therefore, he isn't just an idiot.

幸运的是，对于 Basil Fawlty 来说， 他不在现实生活中， 而是在约翰·克里斯的喜剧中，因此，他不仅仅是一个白痴。

If we happen to walk down a road and saw a man called Basil Fawlty bashing his car with a branch of a tree, we'd feel he was just some awful, furious bloke venting his anger in a crazed, destructive way.

如果我们碰巧走在路上看到一个叫 Basil Fawlty 的人用树枝砸他的车，我们会觉得他只是一个可怕的、愤怒的家伙， 以一种疯狂的、破坏性的方式发泄他的愤怒。