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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, it is a very ridiculous plight for a man to be in, to find himself sailing to America when he set out to go to the East Indies!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, if he had been told that he would be stabbed at the altar, or publicly insulted, he would undoubtedly have been frightened; but not so much at the idea of being murdered, or wounded, or insulted, as at the thought that if such things were to happen he would be made to look ridiculous in the eyes of society.
-- The possibility of being loved himself, 'a man like me,' as he put it, he ranked among ridiculous suppositions.
-- And what do they want with their ridiculous 'Pavlofsk trees'?
-- 'If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.
-- The bridegroom is an impossible and ridiculous one.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' Midsummer Night's Dream here was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that Twhich was solemn in this scene.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was lamentable that one was more amused by the ridiculous figure cut by the Dutchman than outraged by Strickland's brutal treatment of him.
-- He noticed that his wife had remained perfectly still, and to be made ridiculous before her increased his humiliation.
-- For all his pain, Dirk Stroeve remained a ridiculous object.
-- Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft had asked to be allowed to "blow" in his turn, and it was great fun for him; but he blew so hard that his productions took the most ridiculous shapes, which he admired immensely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Slight and ridiculous as the incident was, it made him appear such a little fiend, and withal such a keen and knowing one, that the old woman felt too much afraid of him to utter a single word, and suffered herself to be led with extraordinary politeness to the breakfast-table.
-- At this momentous crisis, Miss Cheggs proved herself a vigourous and useful ally, for not confining herself to expressing by scornful smiles a contempt for Mr Swiveller's accomplishments, she took every opportunity of whispering into Miss Sophy's ear expressions of condolence and sympathy on her being worried by such a ridiculous creature, declaring that she was frightened to death lest Alick should fall upon, and beat him, in the fulness of his wrath, and entreating Miss Sophy to observe how the eyes of the said Alick gleamed with love and fury; passions, it may be observed, which being too much for his eyes rushed into his nose also, and suffused it with a crimson glow.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen: 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the whole thing is entirely trivial, and it really is ridiculous to take any notice of it."
-- On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically:"Why are you behaving in this impossible and ridiculous fashion."
-- She thought it humiliating to see a man dressing: the ridiculous shirt, the ridiculous trousers and braces.
-- In her parlour was a long-case clock, and inserted into its dial was a ruddy, round, slant-eyed, joyous-painted face, that wagged over with the most ridiculous ogle when the clock ticked, and back again with the same absurd glad-eye at the next tick.
-- As for the future, that they never mentioned except one laughed out some mocking dream of the destruction of the world by a ridiculous catastrophe of man's invention: a man invented such a perfect explosive that it blew the earth in two, and the two halves set off in different directions through space, to the dismay of the inhabitants: or else the people of the world divided into two halves, and each half decided it was perfect and right, the other half was wrong and must be destroyed; so another end of the world.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though WHY was beyond my comprehension.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a long, long look, Pinocchio said to himself with great content: "How ridiculous I was as a Marionette!And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!"
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