Absurd

(noun.) a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; 'The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth'--Albert Camus.

(adj.) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; 'the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant'- Walter Lippman .

(adj.) incongruous;inviting ridicule; 'the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework'; 'that's a cockeyed idea'; 'ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer'; 'a contribution so small as to be laughable'; 'it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion'; 'a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history'; 'her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous' .

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• It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• No, no,' pleaded the absurd creature. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Is this a place or am I a person to bring a lady to, you absurd lad? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Whatever is absurd is unintelligible; nor is it possible for the imagination to conceive any thing contrary to a demonstration. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I put my request in an absurd, almost insolent form. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I trust that this may all prove to be an absurd mistake, but you can see that--Ah, would you? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• How very absurd! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Besides, it's absurd. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• How absurd of you! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• This is absurd, you know. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Really, you say the most absurd things! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Quite so, but it seems rather an absurd blind, does it not? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Across it she said: Don't be absurd, Gus. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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