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。

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。