荒唐

A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were more trifler: whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.

谁也说不清：是阿佩勒斯还是艾尔伯特。杜娄更无聊与荒唐？一位想凭借几何比例画出一个人像，另一位想把好几张脸的最佳部分合成一张很美的脸。

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。

Nowadays, with advanced publishing techniques and universal public education, everyone can get a basic education. However, not only are more and more children unappreciative of books, they even skip school to engage in improper activities, wasting their precious youth and becoming parasites and scoundrels of society. What a terrible pity!

我们现在印刷业发达，教育普及，人人可以读书受基本教育；可是却有越来越多的孩子不但不珍惜书籍，甚至逃学去做荒唐事，糟蹋了个人的大好青春时光，更成为妨害国家社会的寄生虫和害虫，真是可惜可惜之至啊！

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。

It was not absurd to the uncritical Jew.

这不是荒唐到批判犹太人。

Who is calling me up at this unearthly hour?

谁在这个荒唐的时刻打电话给我？

Although this means is ungrounded, it has cognitive significance transcending history.

这种沟通耶儒关系的方法虽然荒唐无稽，但也有其超越历史的认知意义。

She woke me up at the unholy hour of three in the morning.

她在凌晨三点的荒唐时刻叫我起来。

If you speak English to foreigners with such pronunciation, they must feel what you say is unintelligible.

太荒唐了，难以接受，如果你这样对外国人说话，他们一定觉得不知你所云。

Science, being the wonder of the ignorant and unskillful, may be not absurdly called a monster.

科学，就愚昧和笨拙来看是种奇迹，也许不能够荒唐的称为怪物。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！