英语释义

• completely devoid of wisdom or good sense;

  "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"

  "that's a cockeyed idea"

  "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"

  "a contribution so small as to be laughable"

  "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"

  "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"

  "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

片语

preposterous detail荒谬

Utterly Preposterous荒谬绝伦

preposterous remark怪话

absolutely preposterous大谬不然

preposterous argument歪理

preposterous patterns含空结构

ridiculous可笑的；荒谬的

preposterous bullshit奇文共赏

So preposterous好荒谬

disablement preposterous从结构上加以解剖

absurd荒诞；荒诞作品

英汉例句

• it never ceased to get the table laughing, michael and me most of all, because it was preposterous to think we wouldn't have ended up together.

  我和迈克是中间笑得最厉害的，因为我们觉得认为我们不会一直过下去的想法是荒谬的。

• not human people, but as occupying a similar range on the spectrum as the great apes, for whom the idea of personhood has moved from preposterous to possible.

  就那些像类人猿而不是人类一样占居了类似频谱系列的动物而言，人格性的观念已经由荒谬转为可能了。

• mrs bachmann has a record of making factual mistakes, repeating untruths and adopting preposterous stances.

  等巴克曼女士曾有犯下实际错误，再三撒谎的以及采取荒谬的姿态等记录。

• the movie has a keen, bitter sense of the sudden breakdown of preposterous illusions.

  电影犀利尖刻地反映了那些荒谬幻象的瞬间崩溃。

• the marlboro man, meanwhile, master of wild beast and wild country, seems too far-fetched and preposterous even for advertising.

  同时，万宝路男人，野兽征服者和野蛮的荒野，看似太牵强荒谬，甚至有点做广告的意味。

• he fashioned interest-only loans from 1 to 5 years, and theutterly preposterous negative-interest loans with an option not to pay on theprinciple between 1 to 5 years.

  他成就了1-5年的纯利息贷款，还有彻底荒谬无比的负利息贷款，可在1-5年间不必偿还本金。

• no matter how preposterous the rule, it stays and stays, regardless of whether it works to accomplish its end.

  不管规则多么荒谬，它总是呆在那儿，不论其是否达到其目的。

• what evidence does bernoulli have for this preposterous assumption, for his assertion that an increase in utility will be 「inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods already possessed」?

  这个断定，即效用的增加会「反比于现今拥有的商品的数量」里假设了一个比例常数b的存在，那对于此荒谬的假设，伯努利给出的证据是什么呢？

• i realize that seems a preposterous claim.

  我知道这个断言有点荒谬。

• so for many, the official result—with a claimed margin of 63% for the incumbent president, mahmoud ahmadinejad—was a preposterous sham.

  所以，对很多人来讲，官方声称在职总统mahmoudahmadinejad领先63%的选票，简直就是一场荒谬的欺骗。

• that was regarded as preposterous at the time, dr craford recalls, and a fellow scientist even called the assertion 「technically irresponsible」.

  这在当时被认为是荒谬的，craford博士回忆，一个科学家同行甚至认为这个结论是「技术上的不负责任」。

相似词

crazy疯狂的；狂热的，着迷的

ridiculous可笑的；荒谬的

silly(Silly)人名；(匈)希伊；(法)西利

outrageous无法容忍的；不可能的；反常的；粗暴的

senseless愚蠢的；无知觉的；无意识的

unreasonable不合理的；过度的；不切实际的；非理智的

nonsensical无意义的；荒谬的

foolish愚蠢的；傻的

absurd荒诞；荒诞作品

nonsensical无意义的；荒谬的

outrageous无法容忍的；不可能的；反常的；粗暴的

incredible不能相信的，难以置信的；极好的，极大的

crazy疯狂的；狂热的，着迷的

unreasonable不合理的；过度的；不切实际的；非理智的

unthinkable不能想象的；过分的

absurd荒诞；荒诞作品

ridiculous可笑的；荒谬的

senseless愚蠢的；无知觉的；无意识的

silly(Silly)人名；(匈)希伊；(法)西利

foolish愚蠢的；傻的

criminal罪犯

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