Nonsensical
“Nonsensical” 是一个形容词。它描述某些言论、行为或规则完全违背常理,没有逻辑,甚至有点像胡言乱语。
- “I can’t understand this nonsensical poem at all.” (我完全看不懂这首荒诞不经的诗。)
- “It’s nonsensical to wear a heavy coat in the middle of a heatwave.” (在热浪中穿厚大衣是完全没道理的。)
- “The rules of the game were so nonsensical that no one wanted to play.” (游戏规则太荒谬了,没人想玩。)
由几个部分组成:
- “non-” (不)
- “sense” (感觉/道理)
- “-ical” (形容词后缀)
- 前缀: “non-” (否定)
- 词根: “sense” (道理)
- 后缀: “-ical” (形容词后缀)
在文学中,“nonsense literature”(荒诞文学)是一种特殊的流派,如刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝梦游仙境》,它故意使用 “nonsensical” 的语言和情节来挑战常规逻辑,创造幽默或讽刺的效果。
- 名词: nonsense (废话,荒谬)
- 副词: nonsensically (荒谬地)
分析结构:Non(不) + Sense(道理/感官) + ical(形容词后缀)。没有道理的,就是“荒诞的”。
“Late at night, the tired student started writing a story. By the morning, he realized that what he had written was completely nonsensical. There were talking cats and flying houses in every paragraph. He laughed and decided to keep it as a ‘nonsense story’ for his little sister.” (深夜,疲倦的学生开始写故事。到早上,他意识到他写的东西完全不知所云。每一段里都有会说话的猫和飞行的房子。他笑了笑,决定把它作为给妹妹讲的‘荒诞故事’留着。)