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preposterous
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🇺🇸 /pɹɪpˈɑstɚʌs/
🇬🇧 /pɹə-/
形容事情荒谬得违背常识，几乎让人觉得不可能认真对待。
💡 记忆钩子
想象一件东西把后面翻到前面、上下完全颠倒：顺序一乱，事情就变得荒谬可笑。这个核心画面从“颠倒”自然延伸到“违背常识、荒诞不经”。
📝 学习建议
- 先把它记成“荒谬得不合常理”，不要只理解为普通的“奇怪”或“出乎意料”。
- 它通常带有明显的否定和嘲讽意味，不能随意用来表示单纯的新奇或不同寻常。
📖 中文释义
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core 荒谬的；不合常理的📖 指事情的顺序、逻辑或结果像被彻底颠倒了一样，荒唐到违背常识，通常也暗含说话人不赞同或不相信。💡 常接“想法、说法、要求、故事、解释”等名词，也可用于“it is preposterous that...”结构，说明某个事实荒谬得难以接受。它比“奇怪”或“不同寻常”更强，常带正式、尖锐的批评色彩。中文里不要把它误译成单纯的“前所未有”或“夸张”，除非上下文确实强调不合常理。The idea that money can solve every problem is preposterous.认为金钱能解决所有问题，这种想法荒谬至极。He made a preposterous claim about having seen a ghost.他声称自己见过鬼，这个说法荒谬得让人难以相信。
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📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 1 组
so unreasonable as to invite derision; ; ; ; ; ;
同义词集:
absurd
cockeyed
derisory
idiotic
laughable
ludicrous
nonsensical
preposterous
ridiculous
the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework
that's a cockeyed idea
ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer
a contribution so small as to be laughable
it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion
a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history
her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
近似: foolish
🌳 词源
源自拉丁语，原意是“把后面的部分放在前面”，后来引申为颠倒、荒谬。
From Latin praeposterus (“with the hinder part before, reversed, inverted, perverted”), from prae (“before”) + posterus (“coming after”).
🔄 变式
more preposterous
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most preposterous
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