The paintings were sold for absurdly high prices.
那些画以高得出奇的价格售出。
Denver airport seemed absurdly far from the city when it opened in 1995.
当丹佛机场在1995年启用时，远离城市似乎很荒谬。
A related hallmark of start-ups is the absurdly long hours that people work at them.
与此相关就是创业型公司难以想象的工作时间。
One who damages company belongings or applies material absurdly to cause a waste of resources;
损坏公司财物或不合理使用物资，造成物资浪费者；
Mr Barro thinks the estimates of Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors are absurdly large.
Barro先生认为奥巴马的经济顾问委员会对这一乘数的估值大得荒谬。
Though absurdly unscientific even for its time, phrenology was remarkably prescient - up to a point.
尽管颅相学在当时显得不符合科学原理，是荒谬的，在某种程度上，颅相学仍是非常有先见性的。
The scene is ineffably, absurdly touching, the sweetest expression of family love seen in recent films.
这个场景是无法言喻的感人至深，它对家庭之爱的表达是最近所有电影中最贴心的。
That worked fine for small XML documents, but for around 50k-100k files it started to become absurdly slow.
这对于小型XML文档来说还算有效，但对于大约50k- 100k的文件来说，这种做法就开始变得异常缓慢了。
England's state schools have an absurdly complex rule book for how they may and may not choose their pupils.
关于如何选择学苗，英格兰的国立学校有着极其复杂的规定。
The absurdly heroic boasts on Chuck Norris Facts may be affectionate, but will anyone take him seriously again?
《关于查克·诺里斯的事实》里面荒谬的英雄主义自夸可能看来亲切，但是谁还会再把他当回事？
Then there is the absurdly vexed question of what sort of benefits a donor can receive after making a gift.
除此以外，还有一个问题已经争论到了荒唐的地步，那就是捐款人能够得到什么样的好处。
Full disclosure: My parents have had separate rooms for the entirety of their absurdly happy 35-year marriage.
全面披露：我父母35年来一直都有分房睡，莫名其妙的是，他们的婚姻生活却很幸福。
But spelling is ancillary to a language's real complexity; English is a relatively simple language, absurdly spelled.
但是，拼写并不能完全决定一门语言的复杂程度；英语是门比较简单的语言，只是拼写很奇怪。
It was a small triumph looking back on it now, but I came out of that room absurdly happy and feeling ten feet tall.
现在回头去看，这只是个小小的胜利。但是当时我兴高采烈、 趾高气扬地走出那个房间，真是荒唐可笑。
The subquery in this statement is absurdly simple, and completely unnecessary, but it does serve to illustrate a point.
这个子查询非常简单，并且完全没有必要，但是它能说明一点。
The iPad 2 is almost absurdly thin, as if designed to be slipped into an already-stuffed bag that nothing else will fit into.
iPad2几乎是不可思议的薄，好像是专门为了塞进一个已经装满且容不下其他东西的包而设计的。
The kids are screaming, the bills are due and there's a pile of work on your desk that's growing at an absurdly swift pace.
孩子正尖声大叫，账单要付了，你的桌上一堆工作正在以荒唐的速度增加。
Some firms say the rule would be absurdly costly to obey, especially if it includes workers abroad, part-timers or contractors.
一些公司说，这个规则执行起来要付出的代价高得无理，如果它把国外的工人，兼职者或者承包商包括在内时尤其如此。
When this boy, whether older or younger than himself, was present, he would laugh loudly, talk absurdly, and be unable to work.
不论这个少年比莫瑞斯年龄大还是小，只要他在场，莫瑞斯就大声笑，说些傻话，无法用功。
I have been hard on the absurdly difficult writing system for Chinese, but Masha Bell is right: English spelling, too, has its costs.
对于汉字困难的书写体系，我可是亲身领教过；但MashaBell是对的：英语拼写同样有它的不便之处。
Three yellow-billed blue magpies throw themselves into the air with startled chortles, fluttering their absurdly long tail feathers.
三只蓝色的黄嘴喜鹊飞入空中，发出嘎嘎的惊叫，笨拙地摇动着长长的尾部羽毛。
He tried to meet a friend in London without a pre - arranged rendezvous and absurdly wandering the streets in the hope of a chance encounter.
他荒唐地在伦敦街上闲逛以期碰巧遇见所要见的朋友。
If Congress wants GM to make more fuel-efficient cars it has a far better remedy at hand: raising taxes on petrol, which is once again absurdly cheap.
如果国会希望通用制造更多节能汽车，还有一种更好的刺激措施：提高燃油税率，目前的油价又跌回了过分廉价的水平。
We stayed on the coast at the Chedi, a combination of designer chic and whatever-you-want-in-the-world service, expensive but not absurdly so for what you get.
我们住在海滨的策地酒店，它的建筑设计别具一格，酒店里有你想要的任何服务，虽然价格不菲但也算物有所值。
As recently as 1976, radio telephone providers in New York City could handle only 545 mobile telephone customers at a time-an absurdly small number by current standards.
以1976年来说，纽约市的无线电话业者一次只能处理545个行动电话用户，从今天的标准来看，这数目少得可笑。
If you're a good skater, all the better, but if you're a failure, the awkward flailing around will at least make her laugh (and laughter is an absurdly cheap aphrodisiac).
如果你是个溜冰高手，那再好不过了。但是如果你是个菜鸟，你蹩脚的样子至少能让她发笑。
His sparse hair was almost white, and from his chin dripped a long smoke-coloured beard, which waved absurdly back and forth, fanned by the breeze coming in at the window.
他稀疏的头发几乎全白了，下巴上几绺长长的灰白的胡子，还随着窗口吹进来的风滑稽地前后摆动。
It's probably no coincidence that Goldberg, a cartoonist famous for drawing absurdly complex machines, began his career as a water and sewer engineer for the city of San Francisco.
无独有偶，哥德堡，这位以描绘荒谬复杂机械而著称的漫画家的第一份职业正好是旧金山市的给排水工程师。
It's probably no coincidence that Goldberg, a cartoonist famous for drawing absurdly complex machines, began his career as a water and sewer engineer for the city of San Francisco.
无独有偶，哥德堡，这位以描绘荒谬复杂机械而著称的漫画家的第一份职业正好是旧金山市的给排水工程师。
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