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Перевод: absurd
[прилагательное] нелепый; абсурдный; глупый; смешной; абсурдистский; [существительное] абсурд
Тезаурус:
- "It's absurd - I look on Margaret as my best friend, but I've only seen her once in the last six months - I do feel guilty about it."
- "And you really think someone like Chief Inspector Kuhlmann of the German Federal Police is going to swallow this absurd idea that you're a murderer and a rapist?"
- In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it.
- The years of his longest sentence, from 1979 to 1983 (incurred for setting up, in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR, a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted) were punctuated by other, sometimes painfully absurd episodes: for example the day the Interior Ministry's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father's funeral, and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news.
- She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime, playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level.
- Using historical continuity as an argument for keeping twenty- and thirty-year-old text books would be thought absurd.
- The classical progression is then to delusions of grandeur with absurd claims of past and present achievements.
- Claiming that the (Greek Cypriot) majority does not accept these resolutions is plain absurd, given that it is that majority that initiated almost all of them.
- In one way it seems absurd - outrageous, even - to measure human life in pounds and pence.
- In a Mercedes, a marque known for providing an almost absurd amount of legroom for its drivers, this is a bad fault.
- It is clearly absurd to try to restrict the teaching of measurement to mathematics, and the teaching of good, clear writing to English.
- In the old days, there used to be crazes, Adam and the Ants, Gary Numan, absurd figures who nonetheless possessed a certain mesmeric force, managed to induct us into ludicrousness, like the Pied Piper.
- The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts - education/full-time work/retirement - seems to me to be absurd.
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