ridiculous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 可笑的, 荒谬的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a mer- Sons and Loversry Christmas.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin suddenly blushed, not as grown men blush, slightly, without being themselves aware of it, but as boys blush, feeling that they are ridiculous through their shyness, and consequently ashamed of it and blushing still more, almost to the point of tears.
-- One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with the one wife whom he has lawfully married; that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, and a man manly, self-controlled, and strong; that one ought to bring up one's children, earn one's bread, and pay one's debts; and various similar absurdities.
-- This was the class of old-fashioned and ridiculous people.
-- The prince withdrew, trying not to show how ridiculous he thought the whole performance.
-- He was very well aware that he ran no risk of being ridiculous in the eyes of Betsy or any other fashionable people.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why, gee, Leora, I never knew you to get sore about nothing before!And can't you understand how important-- You see, a man like Pickerbaugh makes all public health work simply ridiculous by his circusing and his ignorance.
-- It made him feel the more ridiculous that they who presumably wished to listen to him should not be aware of him, and that the usher, profusely shaking hands at the Byzantine portal, should bluster, "You'll find plenty room right up the side aisles, young man."
-- Just let me tell you that the Public Health Movement, by correcting early faults in children, by looking after their eyes and tonsils and so on, can save millions of lives and make a future generation--" "I know it!I love children much more than you do!But I mean all this ridiculous simpering--" "Well, gosh, somebody has to do it.
-- "He speaks no meaner of the ridiculous faith-healers and chiropractors than he does of the doctors that want to snatch our science before it is tested and rush around hoping they heal people, and spoiling all the clues with their footsteps; and worse than the men like hogs, worse than the imbeciles who have not even heard of science, he hates pseudo-scientists, guess-scientists-- like these psycho-analysts; and worse than those comic dream- scientists he hates the men that are allowed in a clean kingdom like biology but know only one text-book and how to lecture to nincompoops all so popular!He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.
-- Yet such is the weakness of genus homo that sometimes, when I ought to be attending to practical details, I become obsessed by some probably absurd pathological concept, and so ridiculous am I that I can't wait to hasten down the hall to my regular laboratory--I must always have a bench at hand and an experiment going on.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She forgot her fourth-hand, gaudy silk dress, so unseemly here with its ridiculous long train, and her im-mense crinoline that filled up the whole doorway, and her light-coloured shoes, and the parasol she brought with her, though it was no use at night, and the absurd round straw hat with its flaring flame-coloured feather.
-- Razumihin, of course, was ridiculous in his sudden drunken infatuation for Avdotya Romanovna.
-- His face and whole figure really were ridiculous at that moment and amply justified Raskolnikov's laughter.
-- 'You are certainly quite right about it,' Porfiry began gaily, looking with extraordinary simplicity at Raskol-nikov (which startled him and instantly put him on his guard); 'certainly quite right in laughing so wittily at our legal forms, he-he!Some of these elaborate psychological 478 Crime and Punishmentmethods are exceedingly ridiculous and perhaps useless, if one adheres too closely to the forms.
-- 'It was like this: I asked myself one day this question what if Napoleon, for instance, had happened to be in my place, and if he had not had Toulon nor Egypt nor the pas-sage of Mont Blanc to begin his career with, but instead of all those picturesque and monumental things, there had simply been some ridiculous old hag, a pawnbroker, who had to be murdered too to get money from her trunk (for his career, you understand).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What ridiculous men!An't they?
-- I think of thenumber of yards of net in Miss Murdstone's cap, or of the price ofMr. Murdstone's dressing-gown, or any such ridiculous problemthat I have no business with, and don't want to have anything at allto do with.
-- 'Then,why don't you tell him so, you ridiculous thing?'
-- These interruptions were the more ridiculous to me, because shewas giving me broth out of a table-spoon at the time (having firmlypersuaded herself that I was actually starving, and must receivenourishment at first in very small quantities), and, while my mouthwas yet open to receive the spoon, she would put it back into thebasin, cry 'Janet!Donkeys!'
-- And a Quaker flying a kite is a muchmore ridiculous object than anybody else.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!no I hope I shall not be ridiculous about it.
-- cried Emma, 'I know there is not a better creature in the world: but you must allow, that what is good and what is ridiculous are most unfortunately blended in her.'
-- 'They are blended,' said he, 'I acknowledge; and, were she prosperous, I could allow much for the occasional preva-lence of the ridiculous over the good.
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