absurdity

1. ADJ-GRADED 荒谬的；荒唐的；不合理的
   If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
   1. It is absurd to be discussing compulsory redundancy policies for teachers...
      讨论针对教师的强制裁员政策真是滑稽可笑。
   2. I've known clients of mine go to absurd lengths, just to avoid paying me a few pounds...
      我知道我的一些客户就为了少付我几英镑，可谓无所不用其极。
   3. That's absurd.
      那非常荒谬。
   4. The absurd is something that is absurd.
      荒诞的事物;悖理的东西
   5. Parkinson had a sharp eye for the absurd.
      帕金森对于荒诞不经的事一眼即明。

1. Once aboard we were soon helpless with laughter at the absurdity of it
   一上飞机我们就按捺不住，大笑起这事的荒唐。
2. The author has overdrawn the villain to the point of absurdity.
   作者把那个反面人物夸张到了荒谬的地步。
3. You may be sensitive to a point of absurdity.
   你可能对荒谬的事十分敏感。
4. It is a monstrous absurdity to call a man like him a hero.
   称他这样一个人叫英雄，真是咄咄怪事。
5. You can imagine the absurdity ot the situation.
   你可以想像情形有多么荒唐。
6. People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
   那些不能看出明显的谬论的人，他们阻碍了文明的进程。
7. We all laughed at the absurdity in his reasoning.
   我们都嘲笑他的推理的荒谬。
8. But even those who value the union despair at the complexity and absurdity of its finances.
   但即使是那些看重欧盟的人，也对它复杂荒谬的财政状况感到失望。
9. Yet numerous harsh lessons from time immemorial only prove the absurdity of this notion.
   但自古以来无数的惨痛教训，都足以证明这种念头是荒唐的。
10. So balance is Camus 'hidden line, which correspond to absurdity in his works.
    所以可以说荒谬是加缪哲学的主线，而平衡是与其一直相对应的潜台词。
11. We've leaped forward into absurdity.
    我们已经向前跨越到了荒谬阶段。
12. The fallacy has been exposed in its naked absurdity.
    这谬论的荒诞性已被充分揭露。
13. Camus argued that not absurdity but absurd outcome is important.
    加缪觉得荒谬并不重要，重要的是荒谬的结果。
14. He's beginning to redize the absurdity of the situation.
    他开始意识到这种情形是多么荒谬。
15. He began to pity himself, but a sense of the absurdity of his thoughts made him smile.
    他开始可怜自己，但又感觉到自己的想法荒谬而微笑了。
16. And concrete absurdity consists in saying that we must all do the same thing.
    最确凿无疑的荒谬莫过于说：我们都必须做同样的事情。
17. Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
    荒诞可以与悲剧、崇高共存而与喜剧（滑稽）不相容。
18. Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
    赛缪尔·约翰森（英国文豪）：几乎所有荒谬的行为都源于对那些不可仿造之人的模仿。
19. 《 The22th Military Discipline 》 by Heller employs sarcastic technique, reveals the war's absurdity and abnormality and the evil of American society.
    海勒的《第二十二条军规》运用讽刺暴露等手法，无情地揭露和鞭挞了战争的荒谬和不道德以及美国社会的黑暗和罪恶。
20. Have abandoned the absurdity of the original work and revealed that satirizes meaning, have added a kind of tender feeling for the film.
    摒弃了原著的荒诞和揭露讽刺意味，为影片增添了一种温情。
21. The absurdity of theatre of the absurd results, in part, from the radical ways of symbolization.
    荒诞派戏剧产生荒诞感的重要原因是基于象征手段的极端化。
22. His story of been kidnapped by little green men is sheer absurdity.
    他说他遭到矮小的绿种人绑架，这纯粹是无稽之谈。
23. A new idea suddenly came to him, but the absurdity of it made him laugh.
    一种新的想法突然来到他的脑际，但这种想法的荒谬性使得他大笑起来。
24. I may have been nine when I began to worry about the absurdity of heaven and eternal life, and about the jeopardy that I was incurring by those evil doubts.
    大约在我9岁的时候，我开始担忧天堂和永生的荒谬性，也担忧这些不敬的怀疑给我带来的危险。
25. He was dressed for the pantomime, in all the absurdity of a clown's costume.
    他穿着演哑剧的服装，是荒唐不堪的小丑装。
26. Waiting for Godot, Beckett's masterpiece, contains the absurdity of life in metaphors, which expresses his reflection on human life and reveals the alienation and absurdity of life in modern society.
    贝克特的代表作《等待戈多》将人类生存的荒诞蕴藏在一个含蓄的隐喻系统之中，表达了他对人类、对生活的认识和感受，揭示了现代人类处境的尴尬和现代社会的荒谬。
27. Much art touches on the absurdity of a situation, surrealist and dada in essence;
    许多艺术品都触及某种状态的荒谬性，带点超现实主义和达达主义的本质；
28. His face was coarse-slack from illness, suffering, and absurdity.
    他脸上的肌肉粗糙松弛，是病痛、苦难和荒唐生活造成的结果。
29. You'll discover the absurdity of most worries in this way.
    这样你会发现你的大部分忧虑是毫无道理的。
30. Camus defined absurdity as a confrontation and division between the rational and irrational, and between eternity and finity.
    加缪把荒诞定义为一种理性与非理性、永恒与有限之间的对立和断裂。

noun

1. a ludicrous folly
   1. the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior

   Synonym:    fatuityfatuousnesssilliness

2. a message whose content is at variance with reason

   Synonym:    absurdnessridiculousness