asinine suggestion 莫名其妙的建議
asinine idea 什么鬼點子!
asinine excuse 說不通的借口
asinine comment 什么評論
asinine remark 胡言亂語,胡說八道
Asinine 僅有形容詞功能,指人的判斷力、智慧或事物的情況差到極點,語意為“愚笨的,十分驢的,糟糕的,亂七八糟的,莫名其妙的”等。通常所形容的名詞有:idea,suggestion,excuse,comment,remark等。
Asinine 用以——咒事
1. asinine 莫名其妙的
A. How can a jury award $104.7 million dollars of taxpayer money to two brothers who climbed a fence and jumped off a Coney Island pier and got paralyzed, just because there were no “Do Not Dive” signs posted?1
單憑碼頭未張貼“禁止跳水”,就判定賠償104.7萬元納稅人的錢給爬籬笆從康尼島碼頭跳水而癱瘓的兩兄弟,陪審團到底是怎么想的?
B. I hope Lorna Goodman and the city win their appeal and throw this asinine verdict out.
(N.Y.Post 5/1/98)
希望古德曼與市府上訴成功,把這個莫名其妙的判決推翻。
注:
1. There were no “Do Not Dive” signs posted. 沒有“禁止跳水”的告示牌貼出來。posted是過去分詞,省去了一個形容詞從句 that were posted.
A. Eyen in theory,… this was asinine idea1,worse than our idea of drawing all over campus with chalk2.
(Stony Brook Press,3/25/96)
這個主意比我們用粉筆在學區(qū)到處涂鴉還要愚蠢,理論上看來亦復如斯。
注:
1.紐約州立大學學生抗議州府刪減大專教育經費,用油漆到處噴涂抗議標語,該校??u清理油漆比清除粉筆要費錢費事。
2.同一格式可以引用“This is an asinine excuse.(這是說不通的借口)”。另如“This is an asinine remark.(這真是胡說八道)”,“That was an asinine suggestion.(那簡直是莫名其妙的建議)”。在適當?shù)那闆r下,也可用驚嘆語式,如“What an asinine comment! (這算什么評論!)”,或“What an asinine remark!(簡直胡說八道)”。
這些短語都是名詞性質,可做主語、賓語、補語之用。
A. Byron Pierce has heard the rumors that the Abilene Prairie Dogs are going to leave Abilene,and on Thursday he labeled them “asinine”. (The Abilene Reporter-News OnLine,8/23/96)
皮爾斯聽過阿比陵山撥鼠[棒球隊]將搬離阿比陵市的謠言,到周四他說這是“無稽之談”。
A. The multicultural curriculum1 requirement might seem to be the most asinine and useless thing this campus has ever seen,but in fact the University is merely continuing a long and glorious tradition.
(奧勒岡州大校刊 Oregon Commentator,1/16/95)
多種文化課程的必修課許是本校所見過的最蠢及最沒有用的東西,但事實上,在這所大學里此種光輝的傳統(tǒng)由來已久。
注:
1. multicultural curriculum 泛文化課程,是該大學介紹各國風俗文化的必修課程。