荒唐

But it would be better to replace such deductions for everyone with targeted credits, abolish the alternative minimum tax (an absurd parallel tax system that ensnares a sizeable chunk of the upper middle class), and implement a broad sales tax.

但是更好的做法是用目标信贷来取代那些税额减免，废除待用最低税（一个荒唐的平行税收系统，使相当一大部分的中上层阶级陷入圈套），并且更广泛的执行营业税。

My eulogies, too, may be founded on a postulate which all may not be ready to grant.

在其传记作者所归于他的言论和布道中，我发现了充满美好想象、正确的道德和最可爱的仁慈的许多段落，但是我同样发现了那么多的无知，那么多的荒唐，那么多的虚假、蒙骗和欺诈，就象是宣布如此多的互相矛盾不可能来自于同一个人。

But there is much that is fantastic and offensive in the pictures of the exploits of the boy Jesus.

但仍然有很多这是荒唐的和进攻性的图片，它讲述的是耶稣的男孩。

The Budget Bureau would not even permit Kummersdorf to buy office equipment, and Von Braun learned early in the game the techniques of flimflamming the bureaucrats, e.g., it was a rare budget official who realized that Kummersdorf's request for funds to buy an "appliance for milling wooden dowels up to 10 millimeters in diameter" meant that the rocketmen needed a pencil sharpener.

预算局甚至不会允许库默斯斯多夫来买进办公设备，并且凡·布劳恩早早的就在这场游戏中学到荒唐的官僚主义的技巧，例如，预算官员很少发现库默斯斯多夫需要买进将木销到直径10毫米的机器的资金以为这火箭研究人员需要一个卷笔刀。

As in my present Condition there were not really many Things which I wanted; so indeed I thought that the Frights I had been in about these Savage Wretches, and the Concern I had been in for my own Preservation, had taken off the Edge of my Invention for my own Conveniences; and I had dropp'd a good Design, which I had once bent my Thoughts too much upon; and that was, to try if I could not make some of my Barley into Malt, and then try to brew my self some Beer: This was really a whimsical Thought, and I reprov'd my self often for the Simplicity of it; for I presently saw there would be the want of several Things necessary to the making my Beer, that it would be impossible for me to supply; as First, Casks to preserve it in, which was a Thing, that as I have observ'd already, I cou'd never compass; no, though I spent not many Days, but Weeks, nay, Months in attempting it, but to no purpose.

就我目前的境况而言，我其实不缺多少东西。可是，我总感到，由于受到那些野蛮的食人生番的惊吓，因而时时为自己的安全而担惊受怕。以往，为使自己的生活过得舒服，我充分发挥了创造发明的才能，但现在就无法充分发挥了。我本来有一个煞费苦心的计划，想试验一下能否把大麦制成麦芽，再用麦芽来酿起酒。现在，这一计划也放弃了。当然，这实在也是一个荒唐的念头，连我自己也经常责备自己把事情想得太简单了。因为我不久就看出，许多酿造啤酒必不可少的材料我都没有，也无法自己制造。首先，没有啤酒桶。前面说过，我曾尝试做木桶，但怎么也做不好。

And, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests

面对着这些荒唐的比赛，参赛的各个国家会如痴如狂， 103。

But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators; and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests.

但是有意味深长的倒不是运动员的行为，而是观众的态度，以及在观众背后各国家的态度。他们被这些荒唐的竞赛所激怒……。注：留意动词和名词的发音。

Frodo would have been utterly overthrown: crushed to dust, or preserved in torment as a gibbering slave.

Frodo最后将一败涂地：粉身碎骨或是在酷刑折磨下成为满嘴荒唐话的奴隶。

In the eyes of our grandfathers, his paintings would have seemed absurd.

在我们的祖辈看来，他的画也许是荒唐可笑的了。

To be hones t, I never weigh myself any more ---I've learned to be happy with myself. It seemed ridiculous to feel guilty about every morsel that passed my lips.

这一段的大意是：我不再称体重了，我学会了满意自己的现状，对自己吃下的每一口食物怀有内疚感是荒唐的。

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！