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

我们对自己的一些诞不经的行遮上一层保持体面的缄默，并不认这是虚伪。

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

现在让我们借此机会打破一个诞的说法。

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诞说法不同的画面。

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

这不是鱼故事，也不是什诞不经的事。

Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero.

劳作的人群中，每个群落都有一个属于自己的诞故事英雄。

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

它们对我来说没什的，诞主义哲学对我也没什引力。

The Trial is a landmark of absurd, alienated fiction.

《审判》诞、疏离小说的里程碑。

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的那些诞的故事，他的背景也十分有趣。

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

但是苏联的军事领导和他们的强硬派支持者并不在乎赫鲁晓夫的诞逻辑。

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

这真是太诞了。是的。嗯，那这个过程需要什呢？

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

那些稍显诞的坑洞事件对我来说宛如一个典型的埃塞克斯故事。

So each week beheld some fresh absurdity.

所以这每周一幕的诞剧还在继续上演。

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

但也是关于未来社会的诞离奇。

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》是一本诞有趣的自助指导书，里边都是夸张的建议，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.

这是一个的配方，这个点子在我看所有这些词和短语的时候突然冒了出来，我觉得如果我们能够用一个诞的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.

对于这个可怕的时刻，Roquentin已经把这个世界称之萨特所称之的“诞的世界”。萨特的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.

仍在网上流传的这个诞说法源自英国一位名叫安德鲁? 韦克菲尔德的医生，1998年他在一篇文章中提出，常见的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.

我不赞同其中任何一个观点。但是，我确实承认，金钱能让人做出诞的事情。让我告诉你我曾经认识的一个人的故事。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。不过，至少显示出你我都喜爱的那些不平常和诞的特征。

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.

这些滤镜有的很有趣（比如把你的脸变小猫或小狗的样子），有的很诞（比如让你置身太空），还有的则让人毛骨悚然——它们能彻底改变你的容貌。