查询词典 preposterous

The preposterous bailouts of this decade will come back to haunt Americans in future decades in preposterously high tax rates.

这个十年中的荒谬的救助将在未来数十年以高地不像话的税率的形式萦绕着美国人。

After a few minutes of trying to tell her how preposterous this was, I sensed from the gravely quizzical look on her face that she thought I was deluded, rather than the other way around.

我试着告诉她这种说法有多荒谬，但几分钟后，我从她脸上极度困惑的表情感觉到，她认为受蛊惑的人是我而不是她。

The routinization of service work has both poignant and preposterous consequences.

在常规化的服务工作既有尖锐和荒谬的后果。

The belief that machines cause unemployment, when held with any logical consistency, leads to preposterous conclusions. Not only must we be causing unemployment with every technological improvement we make today, but primitive man must have started causing it with the first efforts he made to save himself from needless toil and sweat.

所有那些机器导致人们失业的想法，若讲一点点逻辑上的一致性，必然都会得出荒谬的结论：不但我们今天的每一项技术进步都会带来失业，就连原始人尝试摆脱苦力劳动的时候，就已经开始造成自己的失业了。

Weirdly, authenticity is very much on his mind when he makes one of these unabashedly preposterous movies, whose hero is a two-fisted, bullwhip-wielding academic archaeologist zipping around the globe in search of rare mystical artifacts and in the process running afoul of Nazis, creepy human-sacrifice cults and other exemplars of unambiguous, unadulterated evil.

离奇的是，他拍这些堂堂皇皇搞荒唐的电影时，很讲究真实性，主角是个孔武有力、挥舞皮鞭，绕著地球寻找稀世神秘文物的考古学家，过程中与纳粹党徒、令人毛骨悚然的活人祭，及其他毫不含糊、货真价实的邪恶化身斗法。

If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions: but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.

要是在我们的生命之中，理智和情欲不能保持平衡，我们血肉的邪心就会引导我们到一个荒唐的结局；可是我们有的是理智，可以冲淡我们汹涌的热情，肉体的刺激和奔放的淫欲；我认为你所称为「爱情」的，也不过是那样一种东西。

Therefore for someone to say that through prayer I am able to know 80 or 90% of God's hidden or unrevealed will is really preposterous.

因此，如果有人说"我已经通过祷告知道了神 80-90%的意志"，这样的说法是非常荒谬的。

The New York Times shamelessly ran Gordon's preposterous piece February 10 titled "Deadliest Bomb in Iraq is Made by Iran Used Against US Troops" citing anonymous sources only to back up his unsupportable claim.

新纽约时报无耻然Gordon的荒谬的一块2月10日题为"致命的炸弹在伊拉克是由伊朗用来对付美军"引述匿名消息来源，只回了他unsupportable索赔。

That's preposterous. No well-bred man would do this.

荒谬，有教养的人干不出这种事。

When the first edition of this work was published, I was so completely deceived, as were many others, by such expressions as "the continuous operation of creative power," that I included Professor Owen with other palaeontologists as being firmly convinced of the immutability of species; but it appears ("Anat. of Vertebrates," vol. iii. p. 796) that this was on my part a preposterous error.

当本书第一版刊行时，我和其他许多人士一样，完全被&创造力的连续作用&所蒙蔽，以致我把欧文教授同其他坚定相信物种不变的古生物学者们放在一起，但后来发现这是我的十分荒谬的误解（《脊椎动物的解剖》［Anat.of Vertebrates］，第三卷，796页）。

A carrier gas such as nitrogen is directed through line 20 and valve 22 to connect with line 26 and mix with the gas sample.

如氮气之类的载体通过管线20和阀22引入，与管线26相通，与气体样品混合。

But for the most part, knaves and parasites had the command of his fortune

然而支配他的家产的大多是恶棍和寄生虫。