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词汇 nonsense
释义 nonsense
noun
uk /ˈnɒn.səns/ us /ˈnɑːn.sens/
B2[ S or U ]
an idea, something said or written, or behaviour that is silly or stupid: 愚蠢的想法;谬论;胡扯;胡闹
This report is nonsense and nothing but a waste of paper.这份报告一派胡言,纯粹是浪费纸张。
The accusations are (absolute/complete/utter) nonsense.这些指控纯属子虚乌有。
Nonsense/Don't talk nonsense! She's far too ill to return to work!一派胡言/别胡说!她病得太重了,根本没法回去上班!
You mustn't upset your sister with any more nonsense about ghosts.不准你再讲那些鬼啊怪啊的胡言乱语来吓唬你妹妹。
[ + to infinitive ]It's (a) nonsense to say that he's too old for the job.说他年纪太大,不能从事这份工作,那是一派胡言。
[ U ]
language that cannot be understood because it does not mean anything: 无意义的语言
The translation of the instructions was so poor they were just nonsense.这些使用说明翻译得很差,简直是不知所云。
It's hard to believe anyone would try to pass this nonsense off as literature.很难相信有什么人会试图把这种毫无意义的文章当作文学。
The papers were full of the most blatant propagandist nonsense.
Her grandfather's in his second childhood and talks nonsense most of the time.她祖父年老昏聩,大多数时候总是不知所云。
The suggestion is sheer nonsense.这个建议纯粹是胡言乱语。
"Stop this childish nonsense at once!" he shouted furiously.“马上停止这种孩子气的胡说八道!”他怒不可遏地吼道。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Nonsense
a crock (of shit)idiom
babble
balderdash
balls
baloney
blah
blather
blither
double-talk
doublespeak
drivel
eyewash
flapdoodle
malarkey
moonshine
mumbo jumbo
nonsensical
nonsensically
prattle
rhubarb

Idioms


make (a) nonsense of something
not stand any nonsense

nonsense | American Dictionary


nonsense
noun[ U ]
us/ˈnɑnˌsens, -səns/
foolish words or actions:
Those accusations are pure/sheer nonsense.
What’s all this nonsense about quitting school?
Nonsense is also language that cannot be understood or that has no meaning.

nonsensical


adjective[ not gradable ]us/nɑnˈsen·sɪ·kəl/

Examples of nonsense


nonsense
Despite the odd bit of nonsense here and there, this book goes some way to addressing those questions.
I would like to examine them with you this evening, because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense.
There is an analogy, but we press it too far; we are tempted by it to talk nonsense.
I am quoting from memory but the nonsense has stuck in my mind.
Furthermore, a statistically significant correlation of .62 was found between scores on this nonsense repetition task and those on a task of sentence comprehension.
To say that shamanism is universal, and more importantly symbolism is universal, is nonsense.
I consider all the elaborate games to recover power secretly as total nonsense.
I propose here an interpretation according to which what is said makes a nonsense of the orthodox picture.
The mutations a re also heterogeneous in type, and include missense and splice site mutations as well as frameshift and nonsense mutations.
Truncating mutations (frameshift and nonsense) are shown with light-green lines; missense mutations are indicated with dark-green lines.
Most mutations are nonsense or frameshifting and predict a truncated protein product.
Dreaming is the way our cognitive and signifying schemes give sense to stimulation that is in itself nonsense.
The ideas we reject are not nonsense or neurotically conceived pseudo-ideas per se which philosophy as a form of therapy should cure.
In a second experiment, another group was asked to learn the same set of nonsense syllables as names for animals.
There are a lot of nonsenses in the way in which it operates.
From the
Hansard archive

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Collocations withnonsense


nonsense

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absolute nonsense
This is an absolutenonsense, and the labelling is designed to fool the consumers.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
a lot of nonsense
The time factor is a lotofnonsense.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
complete nonsense
Nevertheless, speaking with a heavy accent is preferable to talking completenonsense, and what really matters is that the language is meaningful in terms of influencing behaviour.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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