Absurd的意思|Absurd的解释-里氏词典

absurd [əb'sə:d]

a. 荒谬的, 不合理的, 可笑的

n. 荒诞

What an absurd suggestion!
多荒谬的建议啊！
It was absurd of you to suggest such a thing.
你居然建议这样的事，太可笑了。
Once men sing together round a table in chorus; now one man sing alone for the absurd reason that he can sing better.
过去人们围着桌子一起合唱；如今则由于唱得较好这一荒唐的理由，而由一个男子独唱了。

absurd

[ noun ]

a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless

<noun.state>

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth

[ adj ]

inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense

<adj.all>

the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant

incongruous;inviting ridicule

<adj.all>

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

Absurd \Ab*surd"\ ([a^]b*s[^u]rd"), a. [L. absurdus
harsh-sounding; ab + (prob) a derivative fr. a root svar to
sound; not connected with surd: cf. F. absurde. See
{Syringe}.]
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed
to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of
common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical;
ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an
absurd dream.

This proffer is absurd and reasonless. --Shak.

'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. --Pope.
--p. 9

Syn: Foolish; irrational; ridiculous; preposterous;
inconsistent; incongruous.

Usage: {Absurd}, {Irrational}, {Foolish}, {Preposterous}. Of
these terms, irrational is the weakest, denoting that
which is plainly inconsistent with the dictates of
sound reason; as, an irrational course of life.
Foolish rises higher, and implies either a perversion
of that faculty, or an absolute weakness or fatuity of
mind; as, foolish enterprises. Absurd rises still
higher, denoting that which is plainly opposed to
received notions of propriety and truth; as, an absurd
man, project, opinion, story, argument, etc.
Preposterous rises still higher, and supposes an
absolute inversion in the order of things; or, in
plain terms, a ``putting of the cart before the
horse;'' as, a preposterous suggestion, preposterous
conduct, a preposterous regulation or law.

Absurd \Ab*surd"\ ([a^]b*s[^u]rd"), n.
An absurdity. [Obs.] --Pope.

"To talk, in these circumstances, of the abandonment of nuclear weapons and the substitution of a conventional deterrent is absurd," he said.
But Mencken did not find politics boring: only absurd.
Far from having dimmed or dated, as yesterday's chic successes are wont to do, it gleams and glistens with wit, intelligence, comic sparkle and a deep sympathy with the absurd intricacies of human passion.
A leading member of the 'positive Europeans' group of Tory MPs, he blends strong support for the treaty with frustration at the activities of Euro-sceptics in his party. 'I think their collective behaviour is absurd.
"It's absolutely absurd and doubly shameful that it took five and a half months and involved thousands of innocent people to come up with a solution that reasonable men should have come up with sooner," Lee Rich said.
"For you to try to equate the efforts of any of the democracies in Western Europe with the system in the East that is collapsing under the weight of its own inefficiences and injustice, is absurd," he said.
It is absurd that France has decided to block the import of waste.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Tuesday it's absurd to blame Moscow for Nicaraguan conflicts and the Soviet Union has no military-political plans for Central America.
The views of Sud-Ouest on Bosnia seem neither notably exotic nor especially banal over a kir on the terrasse of one's gite. It is one's own newspapers that suddenly seem odd or absurd.
Italians are amorous cowards, Germans are ludicrous prigs, the French can speak English only with the most absurd accent, and the English as represented by the officer class are brainless.
A more direct way would be for the government to subsidise their training. But the notion that state childcare should be used to encourage women back to work to offset an impending 'labour shortage' is absurd.
She calls the authorities' continued refusal to let her leave "absurd" since she was fired from her job 13 years ago.
Although it is logically correct, it seems absurd to believe that all consumers think through the implications of the government budget constraint for their future tax liabilities.
Besides, I was beginning to fear another attack of the absurd, this time brought on by a huge earring that was threatening to swing round and hit me.
While some of the absurd projects - the fabled $84,000 study of why people fall in love or the $2,500 study of the causes of rudeness, lying and cheating on tennis courts - might not be as obvious, favorite local projects are.
"They'll read about this proposed road and think it's so absurd that it can't possibly happen," she says.
Does it strike you as absurd that they spend all that energy producing, typically, a one-nil score?
He made a real pest of himself pursuing Angus Ogilvy at a party several years ago.' Once these people had joined Maxwell's staff they had to suffer the same absurd decrees as other members.
But the behaviour of both was absurd.
His wife is hidden too, but this time behind an absurd embargo on the Freud papers which seals them from view for another century.
Says Mr. Leuthold, "I'm just trying to point out that it's absurd for a serious person in the investment business to divine where the market is going in the next month or so."
John Walsh, a lawyer for the claimants, called the company's screening methods "absurd."
It's absurd because censorship is a far greater political sin than is overspending or even buying an election.
(He worries about frostbite of the penis - hence the play's title). They gravely recite the manual's absurd and complicated instructions for dealing with the situation.
He thought it an absurd paradox that eastern Europeans were demanding free trade with the west while maintaining barriers with their neighbours.
Lead defense attorney Frank Rubino said it was absurd for the government to expect one defense attorney to handle the complex Noriega case.
But however one reads the treaty, it seems absurd to cede a policy decision as important as America's nuclear defense to lawyers or treaty grammarians.
"The State Department says it's absurd, the National Security Council says there's nothing to it and I say we don't believe anything Noriega says," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in Gulfport, Miss.
North Korean diplomats imposed absurd conditions.
The governing party's recount request is "absurd," Cardenas said. "Our information shows we have won in nearly all, if not all, 40 districts of the Federal District.

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