如果一个想法一开始不荒谬，那么它就毫无希望。

If an idea is not absurd at first, then it has no hope.

youdao

很不幸，不荒谬：这两者是同一个全球进程的一部分。

Unfortunately, it isn’t: the two are part of the same global process.

youdao

如果书中不尊重这荒谬，那么我们应该知道幻念作为权宜之计溜了进来。

If the absurd is not respected in it, we shall know by what expedient illusion enters in.

youdao

What was it that he claimed to find so absurd, ? repugnant and ignorant in Aristotle?

他到底发现了什么是那么荒谬，那么不相容，那么愚蠢呢？

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Let me say, I am by no means convinced that the idea for the philosopher-king is an impossibility or is intended as a kind of absurdity.

我要声明，我决不采信,哲学家国王概念,不可能的说法,或说那是种荒谬的说法。

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It's absurd. No. Wait.

太荒谬了，不，慢着。

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