核心畫面
Something so far off from what makes sense that you almost want to laugh at it. Not merely wrong — wrong in a way that falls apart the moment you look at it straight: a rule, a price, an excuse that nobody could take seriously.
可以想成一件事離「講得通」實在太遠，遠到你聽了會忍不住想笑。它不只是「錯」，而是一攤開來看就整個垮掉：一條沒人做得到…更多收起
可以想成一件事離「講得通」實在太遠，遠到你聽了會忍不住想笑。它不只是「錯」，而是一攤開來看就整個垮掉：一條沒人做得到的規定、一個貴到離譜的價錢、一個一戳就破的藉口。用 absurd 的時候，說話的人通常帶著一點難以置信的口氣——不是在分析對錯，而是在說「這根本不成立吧」。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
absurdadj/əbˈsɜːd/
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Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
- This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
- 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great
- 2
obsoleteInharmonious; dissonant.
- 3
Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe.
- 4
Dealing with absurdism.
absurdnoun/əbˈsɜːd/
- 1
obsoleteAn absurdity.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。