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：
-- To him the authorities were ridiculous AB OVO, not because of toffee or Tommies.
-- And the authorities felt ridiculous, and behaved in a rath-er ridiculous fashion, and it was all a mad hatter's tea-party for a while.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Plornish, looking with a ridiculous triumph first at his wife, and then all round the room.
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- In his ridiculous distress, Clennam received another of the old glances without in the least knowing what to do with it.
-- Nothing to do with my proprietor; not stateable at present, ridiculous to state at present; but good.
-- He preserved his perfect serenity of manner on all occasions, as if the possibility of Clennam's presuming to have debated the great question were too distant and ridiculous to be imagined.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How ridiculous you are, Jo!'
-- 'Just wait till I see Annie Moffat, and I'll show you how to settle such ridiculous stuff.
-- I thought she'd suit Brooke, but he keeps talking to Meg, and Kate just stares at them through that ridiculous glass of hers'.
-- How Beth laughed when she saw it, how Laurie ran up and down to bring in the gifts, and what ridiculous speech-es Jo made as she presented them.
-- What happy times they had planning together, what sol-emn shopping excursions, what funny mistakes they made, and what shouts of laughter arose over Laurie's ridiculous bargains.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him, too, that he being in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.
-- He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.
-- That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a new-born child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Did you ever know a man come out to do either, in a chariot and pair, you ridiculous old vampire?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wisest and the best of men nay, the wisest and best of their actions may be rendered ridiculous by a per-son whose first object in life is a joke.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, what ridiculous resolutions men take when pos-sessed with fear!It deprives them of the use of those means which reason offers for their relief.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How I shall laugh!It will be so ridiculous to see all his letters directed to him with an M.P. But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me?
-- To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The large bill of fare held an array of dishes sufficient to feed an army, sidelined with prices which made reasonable expenditure a ridiculous impossibility--an order of soup at fifty cents or a dollar, with a dozen kinds to choose from; oysters in forty styles and at sixty cents the half-dozen; entrees, fish, and meats at prices which would house one over night in an average hotel.
-- said Carrie, who, ridiculous as it may seem, had not thought of this before.
-- Talk about getting something had become even too threadbare and ridiculous for him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It makes me feel ridiculous to think I was soft enough to BE-LIEVE that rubbage.
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