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Something ludicrous is so unreasonable, silly, or wrong that you almost laugh — or you would, if you were not . A ludicrous excuse, a ludicrous price, a ludicrous claim.
Something ludicrous is so unreasonable, silly, or wrong that you almost laugh某件事是 ludicrous就是荒謬、可笑或離譜到你差點笑出來 — or you would, if you were not annoyed如果你沒有那麼生氣的話,你大概真的會笑。A ludicrous excuse, a ludicrous price, a ludicrous claim像 a ludicrous excuse荒謬的藉口、a ludicrous price離譜的價格、a ludicrous claim荒謬的說法。
It is stronger than silly and a little more grown-up than stupid: you are saying the thing fails a basic test of sense. People use it in argument (“That’s ludicrous”) and in reviews.
It is stronger than silly and a little more grown-up than stupid它比 silly笨拙更強烈,也比 stupid蠢又更成熟一點: you are saying the thing fails a basic test of sense你是在說這件事連基本的道理都說不通。People use it in argument大家會在爭論裡用它 (“That's ludicrous”)(像「That's ludicrous.這太荒謬了。」) and in reviews也會用在評論裡。
It is not a children’s-game word, even though it sits near ; in English it does not mean “playful.” It can describe an idea, a situation, or a suggestion, not usually a person’s whole character (you would more often say a person is being ludicrous right now).
It is not a children's-game word它不是小孩遊戲的字, even though it sits near ludo雖然它跟 ludo這個字長得很像; in English it does not mean “playful.”但在英文裡它不是「playful好玩」的意思。It can describe an idea, a situation, or a suggestion它可以形容一個想法、一個情況,或一個建議, not usually a person's whole character通常不會用來形容一個人的整體性格 (you would more often say a person is being ludicrous right now)(你比較會說某人「現在的行為」很荒謬)。
組成A learned borrowing from Latin lūdicrus. First used in English in 1619. It does not split into English pieces.
同家族的字
- ludicrouslyadverb: ludicrous + -ly
- ludicrousnessnoun: ludicrous + -ness
原始詞典資料1 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。
ludicrousadj/ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/
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Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.
- He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
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。