We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence.

我们对自己一些荒诞经行为遮上一层保持体面缄默，认为这是虚伪。

Now let's take this opportunity to bust a myth.

现在让我们借此机会打破一个荒诞说法。

Present-day warfare, genocide, and degradation of the environment paint a different picture from this myth.

当今战争、种族灭绝和环境恶化描绘了与这种荒诞说法画面。

It's no fish story and it's no tall tale.

这是鱼故事，也是什么荒诞经事。

Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero.

劳作人群中，每个群落都有一个属于自己荒诞故事英雄。

There's nothing new in them to me, and absurdist philosophy doesn't really appeal to me.

它们对我来说没什么新鲜，荒诞主义哲学对我也没什么引力。

The Trial is a landmark of absurd, alienated fiction.

《审判》成为荒诞、疏离小说里程碑。

Gregor MacGregor's background was interesting enough even without his tall tales.

即便忽略掉麦格雷格尔自己讲那些荒诞故事，他背景也十分有趣。

But the USSR's military leaders and their hardline supporters didn't care about Khrushchev's fancy logic.

但是苏联军事领导和他们强硬派支持在乎赫鲁晓夫荒诞逻辑。

Like, it's just so bizarre. Yeah. Well, and, and what did that process entail? Yeah.

这真是太荒诞了。是。嗯，那这个过程需要什么呢？

The faintly absurd happenstance of the pits felt to me like a classic Essex story.

那些稍显荒诞坑洞事件对我来说宛如一个典型埃塞克斯故事。

So each week beheld some fresh absurdity.

所以这每周一幕荒诞剧还在继续上演。

But it's this story about this weird society of the future.

但也是关于未来社会荒诞离奇。

How To is an absurd and entertaining self-help guide full of ridiculous over-the-top advice about everything from how to dig a hole, to how to be on time, to how to ski, to how to catch a drone.

《How To》是一本荒诞有趣自助指导书，里边都是夸张建议，包括如何挖洞、如何准时、如何滑雪以及如何抓住无人机。

This is a new format, it just came to me whilst I was looking at all of these words and phrases, and I just thought it would be really, really fun if we could follow a ridiculous story through all of the examples.

这是一个新配方，这个点子在我看所有这些词和短语时候突然冒了出来，我觉得如果我们能够用一个荒诞故事把所有例句串起来，那这样会很有趣。

For a terrifying moment, Roquentin has peered into what Sartre calls the 'absurdity of the world.' Such a moment goes to the heart of Sartre's philosophy.

对于这个可怕时刻，Roquentin已经把这个世界称之为萨特所称之“荒诞世界”。萨特哲学就是这样一个时刻。

That particular myth, still peddled on the internet, originated with Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor, who published a paper in 1998 that suggested a link between the common MMR shot (against measles, mumps and rubella) and autism.

仍在网上流传这个荒诞说法源自英国一位名叫安德鲁? 韦克菲尔德医生，1998年他在一篇文章中提出，常见MMR接种（预防麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹）和孤独症之间存在关联。

But I do admit that money can make people do strange things. Let me tell you about a person I once knew who liked to play card games for money -- he liked to gamble.

我赞其中任何一个观点。但是，我确实承认，金钱能让人做出荒诞事情。让我告诉你我曾经认识一个人故事。他喜欢玩纸牌游戏来赢钱。他喜欢赌博。

It is a case, Watson, which may prove to have something in it, or may prove to have nothing, but which, at least, presents those unusual and outre features which are as dear to you as they are to me.

华生，这件案子可能有些名堂，也可能没有。过，至少显示出你我都喜爱那些平常和荒诞特征。

These filters range from the funny (changing your face to look like a kitten or puppy), to the absurd (finding yourself in space), to the terrifying ones that allow you to completely alter how your face looks.

这些滤镜有很有趣（比如把你脸变成小猫或小狗样子），有很荒诞（比如让你置身太空），还有则让人毛骨悚然——它们能彻底改变你容貌。