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单词 preposterous
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Examplesofpreposterous

preposterous
There is naught to quibble with here : thepreposterousidea that biological evolution violates thermodynamical law is routed.
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Even so, the affair has generally been interpreted aspreposterous, irrational, and absurd.
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And certainly there arepreposteroustexts in plenty.
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Since freedom (at least in its negative sense)38 is an individual value, it would bepreposterousto say that 35.
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The result is sometimes meager, but it is neverpreposterous.
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The idea of a cosmos centred on our unique and privileged position in space-time became more and morepreposterous.
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A number of the commentators unabashedly express the view that the basic thesis of this book ispreposterous.
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Adherents of the standard cognitive science model find thispreposterous: for them, perception is always a matter of indirect inference.
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This thought experiment merely indicates the scale of the problem (this type of replacement is, of course,preposterous!).
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This ispreposterous, since the presumption is patently not evidence but an assumption.
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This is surely arrogance on a prettypreposterousscale.
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I suspect many would reject such a proposal aspreposterousnot merely because of the flaws in its factual premises.
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As an empirical matter, however, this equation is oftenpreposterous.
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The very word 'triphthong' sounds faintlypreposterous, as if somebody has dared a coinage with 'diphthong' and wants to have some further fun.
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The authors are committed to the inclusive aspirations of the site but also mindful of the avoidance of makingpreposterousclaims for electroacoustic music and electroacoustic music studies.
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