The myth travelled far and wide.

这个荒诞的说法流传。

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

现在让我们借此机会打破个荒诞的说法。

I hate this myth so much, it annoys me all the time.

我非常讨厌这个荒诞的说法，它直让我烦恼。

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

那稍显荒诞的坑洞事件对我来说宛如个典型的埃塞克斯故事。

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

即便忽略掉麦格雷格尔自己的那荒诞的故事，他的背景也十分有趣。

He told a funny story to the king and queen when they came to see the princess.

当国王和王后来见公主时他编了个荒诞的故事。

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

我们对自己的荒诞不经的行为遮上层保持体面的缄默，并不认为这是虚伪。

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

但也是关于未来社会的荒诞离奇。

So each week beheld some fresh absurdity.

所以这每周幕的荒诞剧还在继续上演。

Buldeo began telling them some wild stories.

布尔迪奥开始给他们荒诞的故事。

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

这不是鱼故事，也不是什么荒诞不经的事。

That's a pretty tall tale from a not too reliable source.

荒诞的故事 不靠谱的人。

Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero.

劳作的人群中，每个群落都有个属于自己的荒诞故事英雄。

And so the tall tales, and the drawings, and even the books by A-No.

因此，荒诞的故事、图画，至是 A-No 的书籍。

Having executed its grotesque purpose the wind sank to comparative mildness.

在完成了它荒诞的目的之后， 风渐渐平静下来。

To him it seemed as wild a tale as it may now seem to you.

在他看来，这就像个荒诞的故事， 就像现在在你看来样。

I want to assure you that such an absurd reaction will never, ever happen again.

我想向你保证，那种荒诞的行为再也不会发生了。

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

当今的战争、种族灭绝和环境恶化描绘了与这种荒诞说法不同的画面。

Complex nations were grotesquely simplified for the voters back home and the boys sent to fight abroad.

荒诞可笑的是，对国内的选民和被派到国外的士兵来说，这复杂的国家被简化了。

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

但是苏联的军事领导和他们的强硬派支持者并不在乎赫鲁晓夫的荒诞逻辑。