| 词汇 | example_english_absurd |
| 释义 | Examples of absurdThese 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. Using cooperative agents in a self-interested negotiation context results in absurd behavior of the agents. However, readers should not be deterred by the absurd new subtitle from investigating this interesting and entertaining book. At other times, or in other moods, it seems to me absurd and sentimental, an inability to face the harsh facts of human life. Nothing begins or ceases to be, which is absurd. The conceit on which the play rests, confusion of dog with baby, is fittingly absurd, but hilarity should not disguise the more serious political note. The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last. The problem though is that the ragga vocal is extremely unconvincing and comes across as merely comical and absurd. To begin with, the moral crusaders combined ' fanaticism ' with ' passion ', starting with ' trifling demands ' but building by a psychology of extremism to absurd, totalistic claims. Given this, moreover, one could argue that the above scenarios are implausible because they have absurd implications. The absurd scenarios that often remained incomprehensible to consciousness in waking life were short-circuited with certain characteristics of the child's thought. Even though some of his formulations were exaggerated or absurd, eastern industrialists overlooked minor deficiencies in their search for protectionism's intellectual justification. If, however, the time slices know the corresponding proper preferences, absurd things follow. By the 1980 s the idea that it was a factor in prompting hostilities - however distinguished its earlier devotees - seemed absurd. In accordance with one's expectations, the asymptotic method has no validity in the regime of small r, and gives absurd results. If this conclusion is rejected as absurd, it again follows that for uniform basic flows the characteristics all pass through disturbance. The latter were seen as irrational, absurd, garish, over-zealous and fervent. The conclusion of this line of reasoning is absurd: protoconsciousness of soap bubbles. In many cases, these are questions for which it seems absurd that they could still be unanswered. To justify their sense of outrage, they raised emperor-worship to absurd levels and adopted the code of bushido. Given all the central matters that cannot at all be studied in laboratories for ethical and resource reasons, this is absurd. As a result, they would not search for a secondary meaning when their initial interpretation was absurd. Similarly, they dismissed as absurd the notion that the lancet could bring syphilis. The latter are used for grotesque or absurd ends. The intuition is that this is an ontologically possible, although perhaps absurd, situation. Only then is it absurd knowingly to submit to the will of one but not the other. Then we will show that something absurd follows from this assumption. Such an absurd ' explanation ' would assign a vastly higher probability to his not being absent. Such suggestions cannot be instantly dismissed as absurd. In their absence, the world would consist only of markets - an absurd condition for most reasonable audiences in the social sciences. If that seems an absurd result, the reader should put himself in the position of the person interfered with. One's first thought might be to dismiss the entire idea as absurd. His interlocutor protests that without the faith that our ideals are destined to be realized "our labours are meaningless, our efforts absurd". Roughly speaking, elimination of absurd weakening amounts to stripping off the occurrences of a -variable from a -term. Such an absurd, derogatory imitation creates a new truth, a new norm for social acceptability. We must not dismiss this simply as an absurd exaggeration that is meant to enhance her per formance. Isn't this an absurd piece of stereotyping after what he has already said? Would it be absurd to conclude that bad fiction is also a historical nonexplanation? If this is true, there is nothing absurd about the suggestion that the laws of nature incorporate answers to likely prayers. Any general - and ecumenical - belief of that kind would, of course, be absurd. There was, however, a line between a haphazard, absurd system and a bankrupt one. The thought that one or more statisticians ex post would have collectivist misgivings and stop studying people outside their social contexts seems absurd. All she need do is quote them, for her passages of choice are markedly "muscular," self-serving, and absurd. However, the nineteenth century is also filled with extensive and absurd variations from this rule. He repeatedly states that the random-generator model is absurd. Most of us would regard as absurd the idea that causal events should know that they have occurred. No, these were not absurd questions in this guitar world. However, two or more characters pieced together at random could have rather absurd meanings. Compilers of cookbooks will go to great lengths - some might say absurd lengths to be seen as not endorsing a particular product. The hypothesis is certainly not absurd, but there is no direct evidence to prove or disprove it. In such a situation it would be absurd to posit the model of the so-called rational consumer, operating in the perfectly fair marketplace of capitalism. The absurd policy implication of this finding is that incomes should be constrained to lie between $12,813 and $18,333. One can almost be absurd and ask how one can be dispossessed of land that one does not really 'own'. After all, a great deal of inner speech is simply nonsense - whims, fancies, and absurd ideas, which are instantly dismissed. The problem of group selection is that it can be defined in various ways and made to look absurd or sensible accordingly. Reduce the negation of this statement to the absurd. The absurd cruel system cram [sic] of useless knowledge the lack of individual teaching, the whole waste of time brain is appalling. Such an absurd position, however, cannot be attributed to natural-law theory. To search for him in the libraries is absurd. Is it absurd to talk about the seen being represented by the heard? However, it is not for the fine arts to accustom themselves to such absurd and displeasing practices, but rather to sweet and gentle sensations. The second notion of reduction that we introduce in this section is what we call elimination of absurd weakening. There are at least two other reasons to think that the view that infants do not have rights is absurd. I confess that in my judgment this position is clearly incorrect, if not absurd. Furthermore, the reduction of the notion of space or separate extension to something two-dimensional seems absurd. He says that he believes this on the strength of the absurd. Before drawing so sweeping a conclusion, we need to consider what it is in the example that produces the (allegedly) absurd implication. Both points of view are absurd - so why were they expressed? If the preceding reasoning is apt, then there is nothing absurd about denying that infants have rights. Her slightly absurd patriotic appeals are explicable in terms of the way in which her opponents used patriotism to attack her in the first place. Just thinking about things like that is absurd. If necessary, then a necessary proposition explains a contingent one, which is also held to be absurd. Why should this be viewed as an absurd result, rather than as a quite unsurprising feature of our epistemic existence ? At the time he wrote, reiterating the phenomenological sense of the terms he used would have seemed absurd. How could this absurd position lead to another model for politics? Now biologists can make hypotheses that earlier would have seemed absurd. Initiating a lawsuit could even be considered absurd. Moreover, the idea that culture is a third determinant of behaviour, after allowance has been made for environmental and genetic determinants, is perfectly absurd. To modern sensibilities it is absurd, but it was probably accepted as normal at the time. The 'absurd orthography ... is the stumbling-block which prevents the ready acquisition of the spoken language by foreigners'. Thus, it would be absurd to think that the healthcare worker makes such a decision lightly. A naive implementation, indirecting all access via a name lookup, would obviously be absurd. The libretto, if not faultless, is neither trivial nor absurd. The reference makes the presence of the figure, already anachronistic given the chamber setting of the performance, even more absurd. Absurd as this is, it happens all the time. The conscience clause could not be interpreted to mean that a clergyman could simply ignore the change in the law, or absurd consequences would follow. Perception in particular seems relatively immediate, and the notion that a bird's perceptions are laboriously constructed by strings of formal computations is absurd. Many have thought this absurd and have concluded that the goal should be the increase of average happiness. Women with pensive noses have a way of looking absurd. The puppeteers, the ballad-makers and comedians will cheapen and impoverish a love which was flawed at best, but never merely absurd. The intervention of demons, and their power in earthly and aerial regions, implied a view of nature which was looking increasingly absurd. A final carp: how absurd to publish a book about an area without maps or pictures. To be sure, in other areas of psychology (for instance, in psychophysics), such methods would be considered extremely questionable if not absurd. To sophisticated sojourners its pretensions could seem absurd. In its first application, the golden rule allows the court to prefer a sensible meaning to an absurd meaning, where both are linguistically possible. Plainly this kind of polarized demarcation is absurd. Even so, the affair has generally been interpreted as preposterous, irrational, and absurd. 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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