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荒谬
Absurd
What a nice night for an evening.
多么美好的夜晚啊。
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
怀疑不是令人愉快的条件，但肯定是荒谬的。
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
为了达到不可能，我们必须尝试荒谬。
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
为什么他们不把整个飞机都用那个黑匣子做。
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
当你意识到生活是多么荒谬的时候，生活本身是相当有趣的。
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
成熟往往比青春更荒唐，而且往往对青春最不公平。
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
我是一个国家安全自由主义者，我告诉人们这些，因为这听起来很荒谬。
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
一种观点被广泛接受，这一事实并不能证明它不是完全荒谬的。
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
想象一下，如果你睡着了，或者完全没有知觉、毫无头绪，你就不得不在很大程度上不觉得自己很荒谬。
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为，有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点，就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
说一个男人不能一直爱一个女人，就像说一个小提琴手需要几把小提琴才能演奏同一首曲子一样，都是荒谬的。
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
人是多么荒谬啊!他们从不使用他们拥有的自由，他们要求他们没有的自由。他们有思想自由，他们要求言论自由。
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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
我曾经看到过这样的一天:如果一个人让自己变得可笑，全世界都会嘲笑他。可是现在，凡是卑鄙、恶心、荒唐的东西，他们都喜欢，但那就更好了!
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
因为我们看不见上帝而否认上帝的存在，就像因为我们看不见空气或风而否认空气或风的存在一样荒谬。
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.
我建议慢骑。骑自行车上下班。你一举消除了对公共交通的需求和荒谬的成本。骑自行车几乎是完全免费的。骑自行车健身不再需要去健身房了。你可以按照自己的节奏走。
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
我很惊讶为什么每个人都想知道我的爱情生活。他们低声对我说:‘跟我说实话?是真的吗?“谁在乎呢?因为我们有这份工作，我们就得告诉每个人我们在做什么，或者和谁睡觉?这有点荒谬，但这就是为什么每个人都爱说谎。