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Перевод: absurd

[прилагательное]
нелепый; абсурдный; глупый; смешной; абсурдистский;
[существительное]
абсурд

Тезаурус:

1. "It's absurd - I look on Margaret as my best friend, but I've only seen her once in the last six months - I do feel guilty about it."
2. "And you really think someone like Chief Inspector Kuhlmann of the German Federal Police is going to swallow this absurd idea that you're a murderer and a rapist?"
3. In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it.
4. The years of his longest sentence, from 1979 to 1983 (incurred for setting up, in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR, a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted) were punctuated by other, sometimes painfully absurd episodes: for example the day the Interior Ministry's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father's funeral, and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news.
5. She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime, playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level.
6. Using historical continuity as an argument for keeping twenty- and thirty-year-old text books would be thought absurd.
7. The classical progression is then to delusions of grandeur with absurd claims of past and present achievements.
8. Claiming that the (Greek Cypriot) majority does not accept these resolutions is plain absurd, given that it is that majority that initiated almost all of them.
9. In one way it seems absurd - outrageous, even - to measure human life in pounds and pence.
10. In a Mercedes, a marque known for providing an almost absurd amount of legroom for its drivers, this is a bad fault.
11. It is clearly absurd to try to restrict the teaching of measurement to mathematics, and the teaching of good, clear writing to English.
12. In the old days, there used to be crazes, Adam and the Ants, Gary Numan, absurd figures who nonetheless possessed a certain mesmeric force, managed to induct us into ludicrousness, like the Pied Piper.
13. The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts - education/full-time work/retirement - seems to me to be absurd.