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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like exceptional emphasis in the tone of a genius, that which would have made mediocrity ridiculous was an addition to recognised power.
-- Not I. I couldn't tell any such ridiculous lie about a beauty to encourage a single woman in England in too excessive a modesty."
-- Now, Boldwood, yours is the ridiculous fate which always attends interference between a man and his wife.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- By some invisible agency, my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.
-- said Estella, "to know what satisfaction it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of the ridiculous I have when they are made ridiculous.
-- "You ridiculous boy," said Estella, "will you never take warning?
-- We were all going to "follow," and were all in course of being tied up separately (by Trabb) into ridiculous bundles.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- Neither, indeed, could I forbear smiling at myself, when the queen used to place me upon her hand towards a looking-glass, by which both our persons appeared before me in full view together; and there could be nothing more ridiculous than the comparison; so that I really began to imagine my-self dwindled many degrees below my usual size.
-- Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity, while 131Glumdalclitch was gone to the side-board, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure.
-- should have lived happy enough in that country, if my I littleness had not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents; some of which I shall venture to re-late.
-- The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; nei-ther do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play.
-- Mr. Bounderby, under the influence of this difficult adjuration, backed up by her compassionate eye, could only scratch his head in a feeble and ridiculous manner, and afterwards assert himself at a distance, by being heard to bully the small fry of business all the morning.
-- 'If I were to do such a very ridiculous thing,' he said, stopping again presently, and leaning against the chimney-piece, 'it could only be in the most inviolable confidence.'
-- 'I suppose a man never was placed in a more ridiculous position,' he said, after looking down, and looking up, and laughing, and frowning, and walking off, and walking back again.
-- I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most absurd and ridiculous ideas passed through my head, each more impossible than the other.
-- What could be more ridiculous than to have taken an island for a marine monster?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact everything was a little ridiculous, or very ri-diculous: certainly everything connected with authority, whether it were in the army or the government or the uni-versities, was ridiculous to a degree.
-- And as far as the governing class made any pretensions to govern, they were ridiculous too.
-- But when it came too close and oneself became ridiculous too...?
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