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 ludicrous ['lu:dikrәs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 可笑的, 滑稽的, 荒唐的



    ludicrous
    [ adj ]
    1. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce

    2. <adj.all>
      the wild farcical exuberance of a clown
      ludicrous green hair
    3. incongruous;inviting ridicule

    4. <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


    Ludicrous \Lu"di*crous\, a. [L. ludicrus, or ludicer, from ludus
    play, sport, fr. ludere to play.]
    1. Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt;
    sportive. --Broome.

    A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same
    ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the
    snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in
    one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in
    Iceland -- there are none. --De Quincey.

    2. Ridiculously absurd.
    [PJC]

    Syn: Laughable; sportive; burlesque; comic; droll;
    ridiculous.

    Usage: {Ludicrous}, {Laughable}, {Ridiculous}. We speak of a
    thing as ludicrous when it tends to produce laughter;
    as laughable when the impression is somewhat stronger;
    as ridiculous when more or less contempt is mingled
    with the merriment created. -- {Lu"di*crous*ly}, adv.
    -- {Lu"di*crous*ness}, n.

    1. A nasty clatter after the piece ended could have been Le Spectre de Michel Fokine expressing an opinion on this ludicrous staging. What Fokine might have said about the programme's finale, Scheherazade, does not bear contemplation.
    2. 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.
    3. But it will be fine, he adds, "as long as they admit that it's a ludicrous idea and treat it like that."
    4. All the talk about the "deindustrialization of America" turns out to have been not only false but ludicrous.
    5. Terry John Bates' choreography is wholly worthy of the show (which was originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins); little June's high kicks are ideally ludicrous and musical.
    6. Before and after these dates, the comparison would be ludicrous.
    7. It exists because of ludicrous licensing laws but has resulted in that happy combination of a restaurant being situated close to a 'bottle shop'.
    8. The Glaspie Syndrome is the belief that America is very stupid and foolish and ludicrous.
    9. The flap over the Berkeley agricultural economists' study is deplorable, and also ludicrous because it is mainstream work written in "economese."
    10. A fish industry spokesman said today "it's ludicrous" to claim deficiencies in seafood inspection make eating seafood more dangerous than eating fat.
    11. Mr. Moyer called the SEC's charges "ludicrous" and said he plans to contest them vigorously.
    12. "It's reached a point of focus that's so ludicrous," says Larry Wachtel, market analyst at Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. in New York.
    13. Bureaucrats attempted to apply central production planning techniques to science research, said Sagdeev, often with ludicrous results.
    14. "We want to reiterate that the resignations are still on the table and it is ludicrous for them not to do what we've asked them to," Thompson said.
    15. Almost everything about the production is overdone, from the clouds of smoke billowing continuously across the stage to the ludicrous Italian-Yiddish accent of Shylock and his daughter Jessica.
    16. He says he hasn't yet studied the Dellums bill, but that requiring a beeping tone on recorders "would be ludicrous."
    17. It would be ludicrous for us to say that." Ryan White doesn't have his driver's license yet, but the 16-year-old AIDS victim happily accepted the keys to his own car as he was honored for his "ennobling" courage.
    18. In the early 1990s, west Germany enjoyed a big growth push when, after German monetary union at a ludicrous conversion rate, west German suppliers wiped east German producers off the east German market.
    19. He added: "The ludicrous part is that effort to make Tom Foley look like an unreasoning partisan.
    20. To be out would be disastrous but to be constantly debating whether we are in or not seems to me to be equally ludicrous.' Support for Major, Page 10 Mystery - what mystery?
    21. Raising prices would be "ludicrous," he says, and there are even signs of further erosion.
    22. But he insisted it was ludicrous to suggest he had dismissed some 75 pages of the novel as unimportant to the plot.
    23. There are no figures to support your ludicrous claim to the contrary.
    24. It's certainly true that Stealth's mission, as described by Air Force generals, is ludicrous.
    25. "It's ludicrous," said county administrator William H. Landon. "I can't believe anybody ever bothered to take a look at the thing."
    26. Comparing the condition of Lithuania and Croatia with Catalonia or the Channel Islands is ludicrous.
    27. Adam Goldley is a lightweight, puppyish Faulkland; the role's ludicrous romantic agony has little force.
    28. "This is something illegal the woman is doing, and the argument by abortion proponents who defend a woman saying this is some kind of constitutionally guaranteed right is ludicrous," she said.
    29. Others find their claims of anti-white oppression ludicrous.
    30. It is ludicrous that so much damage to the world economy should be triggered by a failure to reach a political agreement on agricultural protection in Europe and North America. There appear to be two main ways of resolving this.
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