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单词 absurdity
释义
absurdity
noun
uk
/əbˈzɜː.dɪ.ti//əbˈsɜː.dɪ.ti/us
/əbˈsɝː.də.t̬i//əbˈzɝː.də.t̬i/
[U]
thequalityof beingstupidandunreasonable, orsillyin ahumorousway:
荒谬，荒唐；愚蠢；可笑
Standing therenaked, I wassuddenlystruckby the absurdityofthesituation.我赤身裸体地站在那里，突然感到这个事情十分荒诞。
Welaughedabout the absurdity of theidea.我们因这个想法的荒谬而忍俊不禁。
[C]
something that isstupidorunreasonable:
愚蠢或荒谬的事情
There are allsortsof absurdities in theproposal.提案中什么荒谬的主意都有。
Theplaypokesfunat the absurdities oflife.这出戏调侃的是生活中的荒谬。
More examples
  • Thesheerabsurdity of theplotdoes notspoiltheplay.
  • He wassmartenough torealizethe absurdity in all this.
  • To say that he does not havecontrolis an absurdity.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stupid and silly
  • absurd
  • absurdly
  • adolescent
  • againstyourbetter judgmentidiom
  • Alice-in-Wonderland
  • dopey
  • dorky
  • dottiness
  • dotty
  • dozily
  • impolitic
  • imprudent
  • inhis/her/theirwisdomidiom
  • insomeone'sinfinite wisdomidiom
  • inadvisable
  • uncritically
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasonably
  • unwise
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absurd
(Definition ofabsurdityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabsurdity

absurdity
But the point is that such qualifications are necessary to avoidabsurdity.
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It is not, however, the experimentalist impulse of a radicalized pragmatism that stands to blame for the atrocities and absurdities of the twentieth century.
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The sheer incongruity andabsurdityof the comparison is the obvious source of comedy here.
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In fact, what they introduce and eliminate amounts to a meta-notion ofabsurdity, which is denoted by an absence of formula.
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The stability condition ensures that substitution also works for formulas involvingabsurdityand disjunction.
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They focus on its absurdities and the humour to be derived from seeking to regulate human behaviour by means of formal rules.
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Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme ofabsurdityand malapropism.
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The property-based approach avoids theabsurdityof the body-part model, since it recognises the foetus and the pregnant woman as two distinct entities.
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At the heart of the early modern response to the learned woman was the sense of the denatured, variously expressed asabsurdity, revulsion, or wonder.
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It is anabsurditythat she can't prescribe antibiotics.
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Merciless to small absurdities, he was often oblique and diffident on the big issues.
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The sheer success of such an approach in many cases makes it anabsurdityto argue that this approach is always mistaken.
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We can put the extreme cases aside by focusing on the large common-sense range where absurdities do not arise.
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Not the persuasive force of the argument, but the affective energy of intuition brings the foolish animal to realize theabsurdityof its desires.
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Even if it should turn out that other absurdities afflict the idea of an infinite past,7 this cannot be one of them.
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