Many families saved all year to buy a cow at Christmas, so there was suddenly a preposterous amount of beef in almost every compound in the village.
许多家庭储蓄了一整年用于在圣诞节买一头牛,所以突然间,乡村的几乎每个院落都出现了多得荒谬的牛肉。
Milton explains the preposterous idea that he has ever visited a prostitute.
弥尔顿解释了他曾拜访过妓女这一荒谬想法。
Some think it preposterous to ban a work of literature that many in the rest of world admire as a shining symbol of Arab culture.
不少人认为禁止这样一部被世界各地誉为璀璨阿拉伯文化的文学作品真是荒谬可笑。
If that sounds preposterous, wait until you see it from space. The image below was captured by a GeoEye satellite and has a resolution of half a meter (1.65 feet).
如果听起来有点荒谬的话,你就会看到下面卫星捕获的GeoEye和一个有50米(1.65英尺)的图像。
Not human people, but as occupying a similar range on the spectrum as the great apes, for whom the idea of personhood has moved from preposterous to possible.
就那些像类人猿而不是人类一样占居了类似频谱系列的动物而言,人格性的观念已经由荒谬转为可能了。
So the notion that this has happened only a few times among the thousands of controllers "is preposterous," he said in a telephone interview.
所以被认为几千的空中交通管制员仅有几次在工作中睡着,这种说法是很荒谬可笑的。他在接受电话采访时说
Its Royal Pavilion, a preposterous temple of fun completed by George iv, has modern equivalents in the form of a booming club scene, catering to hedonists from all over the region.
由乔治四世修建的用以玩乐的荒唐之寺——它的皇家展览馆与蓬勃发展的俱乐部具有相同形式,迎合了来自所有地区的享乐者。
The point of the story is that the little girl grew up to be a movie star named Marilyn Monroe, and the dream came true on such a preposterous scale that her new wide world has fallen at her feet.
这故事的关键是这个小女孩成长为电影明星,她的名字叫玛丽莲.梦露,而且这个梦想在如此不羁的范围里变成了现实, 她的新的广阔的世界已经拜倒在她的脚下.
I resisted for a long time, because it looks so preposterous, but it's really much more comfortable.
我对此抗拒了很长时间,因为这样看上去很傻,可其实却很舒适。
They have come up with one so preposterous they might have been better off simply issuing a decree.
他们之前的想法荒唐可笑,他们认为只要颁布一个监禁命令,他们的日子就会好过些。
The idea of reopening the treaties had seemed merely to be a preposterous German obsession.
重新修订条约这种主意看来不过就是愚蠢的德国人在发痴了。
Mrs Bachmann has a record of making factual mistakes, repeating untruths and adopting preposterous stances.
等巴克曼女士曾有犯下实际错误,再三撒谎的以及采取荒谬的姿态等记录。
When his team uncovered some pelvic bones in 1977, they jokingly attributed them to "walking whales" -a preposterous notion.
1977年,他的团队发现了一些骨盆骨骸,他们笑称属于“行走的鲸”——太荒唐了。
Proper rock stars who could actually play an instrument had Ferraris which they drove at preposterous speeds, usually into a swimming pool.
我觉得吧真正会玩音乐的摇滚明星应该把法拉利开到飞快,一般要飞进游泳池才罢休。
Swearing actually is demonstrably beneficial, according to scientists in a different preposterous news story entirely.
根据一贯前后颠倒的不同故事,咒骂实际上是确确实实有益的。
Speaking on behalf of the Liverpool board in court this afternoon, Lord Grabiner QC called Hicks and Gillett's Dallas restraining order a "grotesque parody, preposterous, unfair, unjust."
今天下午,代表利物浦队董事会出庭发言的格拉比内勋爵将希克斯和吉列的达拉斯禁令称为“古怪的、荒谬的和不公正的”。
At the time the IWW's vision of a new worker-controlled order seemed "if not on the verge of becoming reality, not preposterous either".
那时,世界产业工人组织对于由工人主导的新规则的看法似乎是“即使并不接近现实,那也并不是荒谬可笑的。”
When you read them, you always felt like you were reading the forensic analysis of a delicate but preposterous crime.
读它们,总会感觉好像在读一份复杂而荒谬的罪行的法庭报告。
That all goods, all values can be captured According to a single uniform measure of value? Or does the preposterous character of those different items on the list, Suggest the opposite conclusion?
认为所有利益所有价值都可以用统一的方式衡量,抑或清单上那些荒谬的项目恰恰揭示了相反的结论?
A man at my time of life, and in my state of health, to risk the shock and the dangers of being flung suddenly into a different universe? I never heard anything so preposterous in my life!
我这把年纪,这种身体,要是突然被抛到另一个世界,能经受得住那种震动和危险吗,我这辈子还没听说过如此荒谬的事情!
She argues that contemporary man has ceased "to think". At first that seems like a preposterous remark. Of course, we are thinking. But what does it mean to think?
她证明当代人已经停止思考。这在开始时似乎显得很荒废。当然,我们思考。但是,思考指什么?
It will be preposterous to shovel coal with a teaspoon.
用茶匙铲煤是荒缪可笑的。
It's really quite preposterous for me to offer up a tips list on this subject.
在这个方面提出一份提示表真是十分的荒诞。
His expression was truly comical and at that moment I did not know whether he was a preposterous old man pulling my leg or whether he was really a simpleton.
他的表情实在很滑稽。我不知他是一个扯我后腿的老人;还是一个道地的笨蛋。
His expression_r was truly comical and at that moment I did not know whether he was a preposterous old man pulling my leg or whether he was really a simpleton.
他的表情实在很滑稽。我不知他是一个扯我后腿的老人;还是一个道地的笨蛋。
His expression_r was truly comical and at that moment I did not know whether he was a preposterous old man pulling my leg or whether he was really a simpleton.
他的表情实在很滑稽。我不知他是一个扯我后腿的老人;还是一个道地的笨蛋。
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