荒唐

The lurid scandal is worthy of the trashiest of airport novels. It hit the headlines on March 14th when the head of a state-owned pharmaceutical company was shot dead on his way home from playing golf.

如此荒唐的丑闻是便利小说中最垃圾的题材，政府制药公司董事打完高尔夫回府的途中被枪杀，上了3月14日新闻头条。

Growing up in the South, a group dinner could run the risk of being shut down if there were no sweet taters in, at least, a 5-mile radius of Grandma's kitchen. A baked sweet potato contains a ridiculous 769 percent of the recommended daily value** for vitamin A.

在南方长大的人，如果没有红薯，聚餐宁可结束，至少，在方圆五英里的祖母的厨房中。1一个烤过的红薯包含的维他命A很荒唐，是建议日值的769%**。

I told him that it was the strangest idea that I had ever heard of.

我跟他说，从来没有听过这麼荒唐的想法。

"It's a bit rich for a man who got famously stonkered at a lap-dancing club in New York five years ago to be lecturing the rest of us on binge drinking," columnist Miranda Devine wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald.

专栏作家米兰达。戴凡在《雪梨晨锋报》中写道：「被一个五年前在纽约脱衣舞夜总会喝得酩酊烂醉的人教训『狂饮』，实在是让我们感到有一点荒唐。

But this tops the stiffest yarn to nothing.

老天有眼！这简直比天方夜谭还荒唐。

The gentlemanly press corps of the early 1960s kept quiet about Jack's escapades; modern scribblers know no such restraint.

六十年代早期讲求绅士风度的记者们缄口不提杰克的荒唐行为；现代的捉笔人就不再有这样的禁忌了。

It satirises New York theatre-land,telling the story of tw o producers w ho w ant to stage a failure for tax reasons;they put on the grotesque "Springtim e for Hitler",only to find it becom es a raging success.

它讽刺了纽约的戏剧界，讲述了两名出于纳税原因想制造票房大败的制片人的故事；他们上演了一出荒唐离谱的《希特勒的春天》，却发现该剧大获成功。

Some of the ruses bordered on comical.

其中一些诡计实在是荒唐可笑。

"A wolf, it is said- but here the tale has surely lapsed into the improbable- came up, and smelt of Pearl's robe, and offered his savage head to be pat ted by her hand."

据说--故事叙述到这里确实有些荒唐了--，还有一只狼走上前来，嗅了嗅珠儿的衣服，还把它那野兽的头仰起来让她拍拍。

Complaining about the bitter fruit of refusals to understand this is as absurd as it is pointless.

对拒绝理解这一点的苦果进行抱怨，既荒唐，又毫无意义。

In the United States, chronic alcoholism and hepatitis C are the most common ones.

在美国，慢性酒精中毒，肝炎是最常见的。

If you have any questions, you can contact me anytime.

如果有任何问题，你可以随时联系我。