荒谬的

When the first edition of this work was published, I was so completely deceived, as were many others, by such expressions as "the continuous operation of creative power," that I included Professor Owen with other palaeontologists as being firmly convinced of the immutability of species; but it appears ("Anat. of Vertebrates," vol. iii. p. 796) that this was on my part a preposterous error.

当本书第一版刊行时，我和其他许多人士一样，完全被&创造力的连续作用&所蒙蔽，以致我把欧文教授同其他坚定相信物种不变的古生物学者们放在一起，但后来发现这是我的十分荒谬的误解（《脊椎动物的解剖》［Anat.of Vertebrates］，第三卷，796页）。

But a number of others decried its observance as hitherto unheard of and absurd, the old Oriental feast being unknown to them.

但是，另一些人谴责它的尊重，作为迄今闻所未闻的和荒谬的，旧的东方节日被不明他们。

If being in pain were, as identity theorists suggest, solely being in a particular kind of neurological state, then octopodes and Alpha Centaurians, lacking physiologies like ours, could not be in pain – an absurdity.

如果按心脑同一论的建议，'在疼'仅仅就是一定类型的神经学上的状态，那么章鱼和孙悟空由于缺乏我们那样的生理组织，所以不会疼——这是荒谬的。

More competition and transparency would help, but the main goal of any reform plan must be to address the perverse incentives that encourage overconsumption and drive up costs.

更多的竞争和透明度会有所裨益，但是任何改革计划的主要的目标必需是纠正那些鼓励过度消费和抬高成本的荒谬的激励机制。

Apparently not. Next I composed a long, ridiculous message to my ex, the first correspondence we would have had since the breakup, reprimanding her for friending my grandfather.

显然不能。接下来我写了一封荒谬的长信给我的前女友，我们分手后的第一封信，谴责她跟我的祖父成为好友。

Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation.

但我们现在只知道某一些法则，所以我们的结论往往是荒谬的，但这并非因为大自然的混乱或不规则的东西，而是因为我们忽略了对生命必要元素的计算。

Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd, God is beyond reach, etc.

他们并没有让自己跟随卡夫卡无尽的想象，他们寻找各种象征和解释――然后他们得出一堆老掉牙的解释：生活是荒谬的，上帝是无法接近的等等。

Yet paradoxically, even as the modern oath's use has burgeoned, its content has tacked away from the classical oath's basic tenets. According to a 1993* survey of

然而荒谬的是，正如现代版的誓言一直处于萌芽状态，它的内容也已经背离了古典版誓言的基本原则。

The more absurd one is the problem followed, which caused by pending contradictions between mothers and sons.

更荒谬的是此后的婚姻出现问题，也多是由于和母亲之间一些悬而未决的问题导致的。

Nothing is more absurd than the notion, that in early life children require a variety of food; only one kind of food is prepared by nature, and it is impossible to transgress this law without marked injury.

没有比这更荒谬的概念相比，在儿童早期的生活需要的各种食品，只有一种食物是编写的性质，就不可能超越这个法律没有明显的损伤。

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。