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。

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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。

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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

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Milton explains the preposterous of the idea that he has ever visited a prostitute.

弥尔顿对这个荒谬的说法解释到,他曾经拜访过一个妓女。

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