荒唐

"A man of straw is worth a woman of gold".

说最上等女人也比不上草包汉子，荒唐实甚。

We really don't need all this ridiculous melodrama.

别跟我们来这套荒唐的情节剧表演。

Of course the military discipline is the most absurd kind of discipline.

当然，军队的纪律是所有纪律中最荒唐的一种。

Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is frankly mimic warfare

重要的不是运动员的行为，而是观众的态度，甚至是观众背后致力于通过荒唐的赛事进行报复的民族，他们深信，至少短期内如此----跑步，跳高和踢球是对一个民族道德素质的检验。

Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the convent-- one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community.

一次，又是在那大主教先生到那修院去视察的时期，有个布沙尔小姐，和蒙莫朗西①多少有些瓜葛，她打赌说要请一天假，这在那样严肃的场合里是件大荒唐事。

There was once an idea that the earth was flat and motionless.

曾经有过一种荒唐的观点，认为地球是平的和静止不动的。

Against sticky Muzak, passengers are becoming drowsy in stuffy compartments and, more ridiculously, never fall asleep successfully.

听着索然无味的背景音乐，乘客们在不透气的车厢里变得昏昏欲睡。更荒唐的是，他们从未成功入睡。

No, no. It was all nonsensical and meaningless.

不！ 这只是一场荒唐且毫无意义的游戏。

The pleading with Noriega is beyond absurd.

向诺列加好言相求真是荒唐得无以复加。

The follies of the nouveaux riches are fun but eventually pall.

暴发户上演的荒唐剧虽颇有趣味，但终究会令人生厌。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。