1·The whole idea was preposterous.
整个想法都是荒谬的。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·This claim is - of course - preposterous.
当然，这一主张是荒谬的。
3·The idea that France is fixed and that there is nothing useful to do for the next 18 months is preposterous.
法国顽固不化且接下来的18个月没有什么值得做的事情，这个想法是荒谬的。
4·No matter how preposterous the rule, it stays and stays, regardless of whether it works to accomplish its end.
不管规则多么荒谬，它总是呆在那儿，不论其是否达到其目的。
5·Not human people, but as occupying a similar range on the spectrum as the great apes, for whom the idea of personhood has moved from preposterous to possible.
就那些像类人猿而不是人类一样占居了类似频谱系列的动物而言，人格性的观念已经由荒谬转为可能了。
1·They have come up with one so preposterous they might have been better off simply issuing a decree.
他们之前的想法荒唐可笑，他们认为只要颁布一个监禁命令，他们的日子就会好过些。
2·It may sound preposterous to imagine that the mathematics of quantum theory has something to say about the nature of human thinking.
从量子理论的数学说到人类思考的本质似乎有些荒唐。
3·Don't criticize yourself, write down even the most preposterous ideas your mind might produce, you never know when something brilliant might come up.
不要挑剔，写下甚至是最荒唐的主意，只要是你想到的，因为你永远不知道何时绝妙的想法会突然蹦出了。
4·Where the baker has been defeated, what preposterous folly it would be for me to try to succeed.
在面包店老板被挫败的地方，我倒试图接着干下去，那可真是愚蠢得荒唐之至了。
5·What I had done I had done purely through charity, and only to ease the poor youth's fall-i never had dreamed of any such preposterous result as the thing that had happened.
我所做的一切仅仅是出于同情，我只是不想让这个可怜的年轻人败得太惨——我之前做梦都没想到会发生这样的荒唐事。
1·None of that, of course, reckons with the other piece of the equation--the wholly unscientific joy we feel when we do something as preposterous as putting people in space.
当然，这没有考虑到其它的事情，比如我们能把人送到月球上，这样的事情看似荒诞不经，但是我们却可以获得完全的和科学无关的快乐。
2·So for me, it was preposterous to believe that everybody's individual identity can be determined by four blood types.
所以对我来说，相信所有人的个性可以由四种血型来决定是荒诞不经的。
3·Though preposterous, the massacre happened 20 years ago was an inevitable result of social in the history of the inherent logic.
20年前令世界惊叫的惨剧，在历史的固有逻辑下，虽然荒诞不经，却是必然。
1·When we introduce the concept of "meaning particle" to aesthetic, the concept of "things in themselves" is becoming preposterous.
当我们在感性论中引入了“意义质点”的概念时，“物自体”这一概念的悖谬就显得一目了然了。
2·The destiny of Fountain shows the preposterous circumstances and nihilistic future of the modern art.
《泉》的遭遇昭示出整个现代艺术面临的悖谬境地和虚无未来。