absurd
absurd 英 [əbˈsɜ:d] 美 [əbˈsɜrd]
adj. 荒谬的；可笑的 n. 荒诞；荒诞作品
名词复数:absurds
- Something absurd is really silly, absolutely ridiculous, or total nonsense. Thinking you can wear flip flops and a bikini to the North Pole is an absurd idea, for example.
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- adj. 荒谬的；可笑的
- n. 荒诞；荒诞作品
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1. Your claim is quite absurd.
你的要求很荒谬。
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2. what an absurd idea.
这个想法太荒唐了！
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3. It was only later that she could see the absurdity of the situation.
要到后来她才看出了那种局面的荒唐。
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4. The paintings were sold for absurdly high prices.
那些画以高得出奇的价格售出。
- absurd (adj.) "plainly illogical," 1550s, from Middle French absurde (16c.), from Latin absurdus "out of tune, discordant;" figuratively "incongruous, foolish, silly, senseless," from ab- "off, away from," here perhaps an intensive prefix, + surdus "dull, deaf, mute," which is possibly from an imitative PIE root meaning "to buzz, whisper" (see susurration). Thus the basic sense is perhaps "out of tune," but de Vaan writes, "Since 'deaf' often has two semantic sides, viz. 'who cannot hear' and 'who is not heard,' ab-surdus can be explained as 'which is unheard of' ..." The modern English sense is the Latin figurative one, perhaps "out of harmony with reason or propriety." Related: Absurdly; absurdness.
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