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英:[prɪ'pɒstərəslɪ]
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adv.
反常地
荒谬地
荒谬可笑地
不合理地
词根:preposterous
adj.preposterous 荒谬的;可笑的
Adverb
1. so as to arouse or deserve laughter;
"her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well"
Latin praeposterus, literally, in the wrong order, from prae- + posterus hinder, following — more at posterior
The first known use of preposterous was in 1533
preposterousadjective
making little or no sense : absurd
1 I saw Bryant at this year’s Trillectro festival, sipping a preposterously large frozen margarita, watching a set from Young Thug as though he were taking in a Hawaiian sunset.
2 But it’s a conclusion, it must be said, that’s a lot more satisfying than much of the rest of this implausible and preposterously gimmicky novel.
3 Resistance is pretty much futile as the Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe Of China brings its preposterously entertaining version of Swan Lake back to the UK.
4 The back room of Saint Vitus is almost preposterously dark, and emerging even into the dim light of the bar area felt like a violent change.
5 We are all so busy doing as much stuff as we can that to suddenly stop felt preposterously luxurious.
6 If Basil Bunting were not remembered for “Briggflatts”—his longest and best poem, first published fifty years ago—he might still be remembered as the protagonist of a preposterously eventful twentieth-century life.
7 The spirits are preposterously high on the playground-like sets where a substantial portion of the audience sits — until, that is, they’re nudged aside by the crazily costumed actors.
8 It wrestles my breasts up to my chin and protrudes preposterously in front.
9 It’s a scene that is both oddly natural and preposterously bizarre.
10 There is another variable, a preposterously internal variable, that drives us: our animal desire to do it.
还有另外一个变量,一个荒谬的内部变量,驱使我们:我们的动物的愿望去做。
11 Some say that his ears aren't exactly where you'd expect them to be, and that once, preposterously , he had an affair with John Prescott…
有人说,他的耳朵不在你所期待的位置,而且有一次让人感到荒谬的是,他和普赖斯科特约会。
12 So I wore it for a few minutes — in my size, which was preposterously large, and the size down, which was almost preposterously large.
13 The giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own, as a harmless creature as preposterously specialized as themselves.
14 Hogan’s case seems preposterously thin, until a shrewd bit of legal wrangling puts Gawker’s fortunes in genuine danger.
15 Look at things more objectively, and we begin to seem preposterously “parochial in time”, as Magee puts it: obsessed with our tiny corner, as if it were everything.
16 Hurt, Quinn reminds Wonder Woman that despite her credentials as a feminist comic book icon, she didn’t even get a name check in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’s preposterously elongated title.
17 The preposterous bailouts of this decade will come back to haunt Americans in future decades in preposterously high tax rates.
这个十年中的荒谬的救助将在未来数十年以高地不像话的税率的形式萦绕着美国人。
18 Behind her, the Union Flag flutters against an industrial wasteland bathed in preposterously tangerine CGI twilight.
19 As Benjamin Franklin said: "It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed... for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth."
正如本杰明·富兰克林所言:“奇妙的是,人们管理世界事务的方式如此地荒谬……监管商业这样一个聚集了出色人才的领域的人,却是地球上最愚蠢的人。”
20 Throughout “Creatures,” Sundsten’s dazzling painterly facility makes her fantastical subjects feel preposterously plausible.
2 反常
abnormal eccentric unnatural preposterous excentric heteroclite paradoxically erratically unnaturally abnormalcy anomaly abnormality abnormity
4 不合理
steep absurd unreasonable irrational indecent illogical unjustified unsound off-center unjustifiable unmerciful unadvisable reasonless unreasonably irrationally unjustifiably absurdity irrationality illegitimacy unreasonableness irrationalism inconsequence illogicality without rhyme or reason
5 荒唐地