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 nonsense ['nɒnsәns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 无意义的事, 荒谬言行, 荒唐



    nonsense
    [ noun ]
    1. a message that seems to convey no meaning

    2. <noun.communication>
    3. ornamental objects of no great value

    4. <noun.artifact>
    [ adj ]
    1. having no intelligible meaning

    2. <adj.all>
      nonsense syllables
      a nonsensical jumble of words


    Nonsense \Non"sense\, n. [Pref. non- + sense: cf. F. nonsens.]
    1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or
    language, which have no meaning, or which convey no
    intelligible ideas; absurdity.

    2. Trifles; things of no importance.

    {Nonsense verses}, lines made by taking any words which
    occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to
    recollect, and arranging them without reference to
    anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines
    may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.

    Syn: Folly; silliness; absurdity; trash; balderdash.

    fiddledeedee \fid"dle*dee*dee`\, interj.
    An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to {nonsense}!
    [Colloq.]

    1. I relish the masters of "nonsense" (the likes of Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear), which at its best is a fanciful form of sense.
    2. Last week, when Lady Thatcher came out with her clarion call for the latter measure, British ministers dismissed it as 'emotional nonsense'.
    3. You are no bit players, and that is why it is nonsense to suggest that local democracy is under threat.' He made clear that he wanted to avoid confrontation, by saying: 'You can, and do, influence our thinking and actions.
    4. He said their publication was 'one of the most important post-war innovations in levering up standards'. But Miss Joan Jefferson, the association's president, said the way the league tables were compiled was 'nonsense'.
    5. But, for Ana Maria Chindler, who owns a small retail business, "the official figure is nonsense.
    6. So this talk that I have prospered in the midst of recession is total nonsense. I personally have made a lot of money in my time, despite coming from a working class background in the East End.
    7. This is a bit of 'scholarly' nonsense.
    8. The college community would react with outrage to racist statements, but anti-Semitic taunts, as well as academic nonsense, scarcely attract attention anymore.
    9. There's only a teacher in need of assistance or help, a sabbatical or something." Bennett called that "just utter nonsense or drivel.
    10. 'We checked your time sheets and just added up the hours.' What was all that nonsense about old dogs and new tricks?
    11. One must suppose that this nonsense is supposed to send the speculators who have the pound on the floor rushing for cover, and so permit a cut in interest rates, rather than make himself look silly; but it does not matter much.
    12. He did three series with Monty Python's ensemble of nonsense comedians and edited the spinoff books and co-wrote and appeared in three Monty Python movies.
    13. First Boston, its lawyers and even officials at rival firms say that's nonsense.
    14. The bank told The Press he was dismissed for "appropriate business reasons" unrelated to "the product in question." "That's nonsense," Sinclair replied. "It was related directly to the product in question.
    15. It talks about itself as the first victim. That's all such nonsense and that has to be changed." About 36,500 Jews still live in West Berlin and West Germany.
    16. Not only is Sami not a spy, Mrs. Wassef said, but "he was such a bad reporter that Tony fired him for giving him only nonsense. That was more than two years ago.
    17. At a news conference in Phnom Penh Wednesday, Hun Sen said it was "nonsense" to replace one foreign force, the departing Vietnamese, with another foreign force.
    18. But first, I want to find out how to do it." To those who say the dance is obscene and nothing more than a simulated sex act, Tom Romeo says nonsense.
    19. However, an army general dismissed the denial as nonsense.
    20. None of that 'What did Tchaikovsky die of?' nonsense for him.
    21. The film is 2 1/2 hours of John Grisham-based nonsense, with Tom Cruise battling a corrupt and murder-prone law firm.
    22. But Peres said the party wants to avoid a crisis that would break up the coalition government. "Please stop withall your nonsense about us trying to make the government fall.
    23. Because these self-splicing nonsense stretches of RNA acted like enzymes they were dubbed "ribozymes" (RNA stands for ribonucleic acid).
    24. None of this seven-hour-a day nonsense.
    25. A good deal of pretentious nonsense has been written about Triumph Of The Will (12.05 BBC2), Leni Riefenstahl's notorious film about the 1934 Nazi party congress in Nuremburg.
    26. All the nonsense that we hear about mediate and immediate animation, the point where a soul enters the unborn and so on, is at best beside the point.
    27. "We are on full alert and we will stand no nonsense," said Major P. Govindaswamy, in charge of the army checkpoint at Panbazar, five miles south of Srinagar.
    28. It tries to be bold and demanding, but strays too often into no-sense, worse than nonsense.
    29. The moral, political and economic crisis in our country is linguistically inseparable from this word." He said the national coat of arms that combined traditional and Communist symbols was "heraldic nonsense."
    30. When television came to Brazil in the 1960s, Barbosa became a legend with a amateur show called "Chacrinha's Horn." His nonsense slogans and silly rhymes caught on throughout the country.
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