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1 He also dismissed the Club of Rome's prediction that the world was about to run out of food as arrant nonsense.

他还驳斥了罗马俱乐部关于世界食物即将耗尽的预测，称那是十足的一派胡言。

2 One reason for this, he posits: “The economy is a complicated system that is inherently difficult to understand, so propositions like these” — the arrant nonsense in question — “are all that saves us from intellectual nihilism.”

3 Or put less politely, as Mr. Rudd writes in the first sentence of his paper, “Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that ‘everyone knows’ to be true, but that are actually arrant nonsense.”

4 "There's no way he can stay on until October. It's arrant nonsense to think he can. Someone needs to grip this."

5 Let’s not write off today’s opponents Leeds too lightly, for to do so would be arrant foolishness.

6 The gitanos are not such ruffians as of old, nor even such arrant thieves, although it would still be unwise to trust them within call of temptation.

7 But even the most arrant individualist can hardly go single file all by himself—not without making hard work of it, at least.

8 She has a fiance, but he’s such an arrant tosser that we wait, like maiden aunts, for Robin and Cormoran to figure out their true feelings.

9 “Do you think there is any one who would pay all that money for such an arrant sinner’s sake?” inquired the pastor.

10 In contact with the finest minds of her times, George Sand was neither a moral monster nor yet the arrant Bohemian that legend has fashioned of her.

11 I have known an arrant poltroon defend himself desperately against robbers; and a man, considered of undoubted courage, surrender his arms to a single footpad.

12 Every servant an arrant thief as to victuals and drink.

13 The Captive recapitulates the arc of Egoyan’s career: early promise, followed by arrant misfires.

14 Though physically an arrant coward, no defeats could discourage him.

15 "I believe the man to be an arrant coward," I went on.

16 I should have been an arrant fool had I flattered myself with the hope that this partition would introduce the olive-branch of peace into our midst.

17 Fears that lies in ads will backfire and repel voters, which many do, surely limit the number of arrant falsehoods.

18 As Winston Churchill, one of the last century’s most powerful writers, wryly observed, “This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”

19 that statement is complete and arrant nonsense

20 Caleb Keeping died like an arrant coward, whining like a whipped cur as the executioner bound him.

1 绝顶的

culminant

2 极端的

great high last forward super rank extreme severe terrible precious radical ultra mortal exquisite utmost drastic abysmal frightful unearthly far-out immoderate far out too-too far outside violent excessive awful macro sore dense heroic monumental raging howling devilish wild-eyed perishing

3 声名狼藉的

ragtime infamous disreputable raffish

4 恶名昭彰的

ill-famed infamous notorious egregious louche flagrant

5 声名狼籍的

burning infamous notorious disreputable errant raffish

6 完全的

deadly simple full complete real whole perfect total direct entire round positive dead fair royal prize pure plain absolute thorough sheer bleeding utter literal stark downright crashing full-scale plenary unadulterated unreserved thoroughgoing blithering veriest down-the-line deep-dyed thorough-paced hard from the ground up out and out root and branch good right regular rank detailed strict radical exhaustive abysmal crass out-and-out frigging hundred-and-eighty-degree right-down hundred-percent whole-hog sound black clean stone proper grand integrate universal integrated intimate integral in-depth chill profound hollow outright Stark wholesome well-rounded damned integrative plumb blinking resounding full-fledged errant full-out teetotal straight-out orbicular gradely very main mere tel- be- with a capital A to the backbone

7 臭名远扬

notorious flagrant flagrance

8 绝对的

complete positive square absolute blank sheer stark unconditional categorical out-and-out diametric

9 彻底

good close sound regular proper strict thorough in-depth downright out-and-out thoroughgoing dyed-in-the-wool deep-dyed thoroughpaced down-the-line well through right completely stiff purely richly bone to the world down to the ground to the root out and out in grain till all is blue neck and crop to the backbone by the root to sticks to the tips of fingers all to pieces do up brown

10 绝对

complete positive square absolute blank sheer stark unconditional categorical out-and-out diametric simply dead absolutism for love and money

11 彻头彻尾的

positive absolute downright plumb thoroughgoing unutterable in grain thorough flaming out-and-out best dyed-in-the-wool thoroughpaced wool-dyed rank frank errant omnipotent card-carrying bodacious deep-dyed double-dyed dyed in the wool of the deepest dye

12 臭名远扬的

notorious flagrant

13 绝顶

beyond compare culminant top height peak summit sublimity tiptop

14 完全

good right full complete whole perfect total direct entire round regular positive dead rank detailed pure absolute strict radical thorough sheer stark downright exhaustive abysmal crass unadulterated unreserved out-and-out frigging up very well really clear simply clean wide completely absolutely flat totally perfectly fairly entirely bang strictly altogether purely wholly bodily plumb raving diametrically all all- line and sinker neck and crop stock and barrel to fingertips root and branch to the ground inside out nothing less than every inch in depth from top to bottom first and last through and through head over heels hundred-and-eighty-degree right-down hundred-percent whole-hog real sound simple black fair stone proper royal grand integrate universal integrated deadly intimate integral in-depth chill profound hollow outright Stark earthly wholesome well-rounded damned integrative crashing blinking resounding full-fledged plenary errant thoroughgoing motherless full-out teetotal straight-out veriest orbicular gradely thorough-paced jonnock out just even through home down enough short quite stock directly exactly definitely fully cold solid properly indeed bone plain merely buck solely jam stiff positively utterly cleverly richly cleanly roundly staring dripping stone-cold mondo soever spang wholely simpliciter spandy main mere utter tel- world depth integrity pig entirety fullness max wholeness consummation plenitude allness ob- e- be- for- in totality from A to Izzard with a capital A about ears from clew to earing to the backbone from hub to tire to the fingernails to the nail in its fullness head and ears from top to tail like all nature and sinker to a dot to the eyeballs boots and all to the world good and all out every way every bit of in its entirety down to earth to perfection from the ground up by weight and barrel for fair to the wide like a book fair and square backward and forward from head to foot out and out

15 彻底的

good complete regular fair prize radical thorough intimate intensive bleeding utter outright roaring full-scale thoroughgoing deep-dish veriest down-the-line deep-dyed to the core root and branch close sound proper strict in-depth downright out-and-out dyed-in-the-wool thoroughpaced out and out in grain till all is blue to the backbone do up brown

16 十足

full clear proper prize thorough sheer stark downright flaming crass unadulterated unmitigated frigging pure and simple blinking veriest crashing complete regular rank pure absolute profound glorious sovereign sublime blooming veritable thoroughgoing unutterable unalloyed thorough-paced absolutely utter dyed in the wool with a vengeance in grain goddam very damn deadly out-and-out echt deep-dyed spanking screamingly all- to your fingertips all over to the core down-the-line wool-dyed good perfect clean round cold solid stone qualified blank precious manifold congenital unqualified errant ingrained clotted dyed-in-the-wool quare well regularly utterly spandy stone- amplitude to the fingernails all to nothing all of up a storm out and out

17 十足的

full clear proper prize thorough sheer stark downright flaming crass unadulterated unmitigated frigging pure and simple big complete real round regular positive pure absolute utter blooming undiluted spunky out-and-out thoroughgoing blithering blinking veriest crashing rank profound glorious sovereign sublime veritable unutterable unalloyed thorough-paced dyed in the wool in grain very damn deadly echt deep-dyed wool-dyed good perfect clean cold solid stone qualified blank precious manifold congenital unqualified errant ingrained clotted dyed-in-the-wool quare

18 声名狼籍

burning infamous notorious disreputable limelight notoriety disrepute errant raffish get a bad name

19 恶名昭彰

ill-famed infamous notorious egregious louche flagrant flagrantly flagrancy

20 声名狼藉

ragtime infamous disreputable raffish one's name is mud

21 彻头彻尾

thorough downright flaming out-and-out unutterable through best dyed-in-the-wool thoroughpaced throughout quick wool-dyed positive rank absolute frank errant omnipotent card-carrying bodacious deep-dyed double-dyed from clew to earing to the backbone dyed in the wool top and tail of the deepest dye from tip to toe first and last from start to finish in grain