As a linguist once said, "You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time that you buy into it. “
正如一位语言学家曾经说过的那样:“你可以让人们认为它是无稽之谈,但同时你又对它深信不疑。”
A girl's place is in the home, not gallivanting around and filling her head with nonsense.
女孩就应待在家里,而不该到处闲逛,胡思乱想。
The fighting made a nonsense of peace pledges made last week.
这场战斗使上周做出的和平承诺失去了意义。
She saw herself as a direct, no-nonsense, modern woman.
她视自己为一个率直、高效干练的现代女性。
I think that a lot of poetry published today is obscurantist nonsense.
我认为当今出版的很多诗歌都是故弄玄虚的无病呻吟。
In a loud, hectoring tone, Alan told us that he wasn't going to waste time discussing nonsense.
阿兰大声威吓地对我们说,他不会浪费时间讨论这些没用的事情。
If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system.
如果人们可以收买警察,法律体系就会变得一文不值。
Pinocchio, mortified at being taken for a crab, said resentfully: "What nonsense!"
皮诺乔被当成一只螃蟹,觉得很难为情,愤愤道:“胡说!”
As a linguist once said, "You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time that you buy into it."
正如一位语言学家曾经说过的那样:“你可以让人们认为这是无稽之谈,但同时你又会相信它。”
一派胡言!
If people can bribe police officers, it makes a nonsense of the legal system.
如果人们可以贿赂警察,那法律制度就失去了意义。
And the nonsense wasn't a slip of the tongue; it's the official party position, laid out in charts and figures.
而且,这种胡说并不是什么口误,而是用图表及数据表示的共和党的正式立场。
It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.
认为在我们这样的年代,作家可以回避这种题材,在我看来是无稽之谈。
A sensible man's sensor is sensitive to nonsense on census.
明智者的传感器对人口调查废话敏感。
All of that is nonsense, of course, as a well-argued paper published online today by public health doctors at Harvard and elsewhere makes clear.
今天在一篇在网上发表的论文证明这纯属无稽之谈,该论文论据充分,作者是哈弗大学及其他单位的公众健康医生。
"I think it's pure fraud ...It's not bad science.It's nonsense," Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, told reporters.
加州大学伯克利分校的语言学教授杰弗里•纳恩博格在接受记者采访时说:“这完全是无稽之谈,并不是伪科学,而是毫无意义。”
Sometimes she would sing a nonsense song in his ear, her mouth close as if she were whispering a secret.
她有时会在他耳边唱着无厘头的歌,她的嘴离他的耳朵那么近就像悄悄地说着秘密。
Just as I might say a sentence that is nonsense, I might also use a name or a general term which is meaningless in the sense that it fails to hook up to the world.
正如我说的一句话可能是胡说,我同样可能使用一个毫无意义的名字或是一个一般术语,因为它不能和现实世界挂钩。
No serious evidence yet suggests it is a danger-but the nonsense over genetically modified foods shows how much a new technology needs popular approval.
虽然没有严格证据显示它是有害的,但是讨论基因改造食品的无知之谈,表明一项新技术需要多少的普遍认同。
The past decade has proved again that the phrase "safe as houses" is a nonsense.
过去的十年再次证明“同房屋一样安全(十分安全)”的习语毫无意义。
Afterwards she turned, and recommenced her nonsense; at last, Hareton uttered a smothered laugh.
这以后她转过脸来,又开始她的胡闹;终于,哈里顿发出一声压制的笑声。
It comes with some extra frills and nonsense, like a dust cloth, and... a purse, I think.
只不过它装饰太多,根本没用,比如一块除尘布,还有一个钱袋。
这是毫无意义的。
A no-nonsense attendant in rainboots took us past rows of barking dogs, many big and scary, at least to me.
一个穿着雨鞋的严肃的工作人员带着我们穿过了几行正在狂叫的,在我看来有些大,有些恐怖的狗。
Pink Floyd was originally a "psychedelic" band with typical nonsense lyrics and themes, becoming only gradually a band known for its deep and challenging concept albums.
平克·弗洛伊德从最初的仅有典型的无意义的歌词与主题的“迷幻”乐队,逐渐成长为一个其专辑具有深刻意义并富有挑战性的乐队。
It's your job to shine a light on them and expose them for what they are: a lot of nonsense.
你的工作是要光照它们,暴露它们,因为很多应该都是无稽之谈。
The real point, though, is that fitting a dozen complex stories into a single analytical straitjacket is a nonsense.
尽管关键在于,将一打复杂故事塞入单一的分析情境本身是毫无意义的。
There is a certain nonsense tale which a friend used to tell with such effect that her hearers became helpless with laughter, but which for some reason never seemed funny to me.
有这么一个故事:是一个朋友常常给她的听众讲的一个故事,每次她讲的时候听的人都忍不住要大笑。可是,也许是由于某种原因吧,我觉得这个故事压根儿就不好笑。
There is a certain nonsense tale which a friend used to tell with such effect that her hearers became helpless with laughter, but which for some reason never seemed funny to me.
有这么一个故事:是一个朋友常常给她的听众讲的一个故事,每次她讲的时候听的人都忍不住要大笑。可是,也许是由于某种原因吧,我觉得这个故事压根儿就不好笑。
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