absurd是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 荒谬的, 可笑的，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence ren-ders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
-- He add-ed, 'that his suspicions were much increased by some very absurd speeches I had delivered at first to his sailors, and af-terwards to himself, in relation to my closet or chest, as well as by my odd looks and behaviour while I was at supper.'
-- I dwell the longer upon this sub- 381ject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to come in my sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all the trouble that has been taken with you!After the lectures you have attended, and the experiments you have seen!After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!I wish,' whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, taking a chair, and discharging her strongest point before succumbing under these mere shadows of facts, 'yes, I really do wish that I had never had a family, and then you would have known what it was to do without me!'
-- the absurd answer, 'To do unto others as I would that they should do unto me.'
-- I am obliged to you, of all things, for correcting so absurd a mistake.
-- 'You found Miss Gradgrind I really cannot call her Mrs. Bounderby; it's very absurd of me as youthful as I described her?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could easily imagine him tearing along some solitary road, gesticulating, talking to himself, cutting the air with his cane, and still thinking of the absurd bit of hieroglyphics.
-- Four different idioms in this absurd phrase.
-- I was, in fact, fighting against an insurmountable difficulty; my brain was almost on fire; my eyes were strained with staring at the parchment; the whole absurd collection of letters appeared to dance before my vision in a number of black little groups.
-- Besides, some means would surely be found to keep my uncle back from attempting any such absurd expedition.
-- The most absurd and ridiculous ideas passed through my head, each more impossible than the other.
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：
-- Cold and derisive her queer female mind stood apart, and though she lay perfectly still, her impulse was to heave her loins, and throw the man out, escape his ugly grip, and the butting over-riding of his absurd haunches.
-- He could get up if he liked, and stand there, above her, buttoning down those absurd cor-duroy breeches, straight in front of her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear good man I use no ceremony with you, because we are a kind of relations; positively, Mama Meagles,' exclaimed Mrs Gowan cheerfully, as if the absurd coincidence then flashed upon her for the first time, 'a kind of relations!My dear good man, in this world none of us can have everything our own way.'
-- They were still looming at opposite ends of the perspective, each with an absurd pretence of not having the other on his mind, which could not have been more transparently ridiculous though his real mind had been chalked on his back.
-- It is a most provoking situation, a most absurd situation; but you know Mr Merdle, and are not surprised.'
-- Still highly respectable at bottom, though absurd enough upon the surface, Young John took out his pocket-handkerchief with a genuine absence both of display and concealment, which is only to be seen in a man with a great deal of good in him, when he takes out his pocket-handkerchief for the purpose of wiping his eyes.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But your absurd words are as bad as Jo's slang.'
-- 'How absurd of you!The girls dressed me up for fun, and I rather like it.
-- I'm not playing, I never do,' said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to res-cue the absurd couple.
-- Everything was arranged by the time Laurie returned with a note from Aunt March, enclosing the desired sum, and a few lines repeating what she had often said before, that she had always told them it was absurd for March to go into the army, always predicted that no good would come of it, and she hoped they would take her advice the next time.
-- He says he won't come down till he has one, and talks about Washing-ton, and goes on in an absurd way.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was Queequeg, now, certainly entertaining the most absurd notions about Yojo and his Ramadan; but what of that?
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