ridiculously ad. 可笑, 滑稽, 荒谬
ridiculously[ adv ]
so as to arouse or deserve laughter
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her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well
Ridiculous \Ri*dic"u*lous\, a. [L. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr.
ridere to laigh. Cf. {Risible}.]
1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy
of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or
behavior.
Agricola, discerning that those little targets and
unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become
ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded
three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to
handy strokes. --Milton.
2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [R.]
[It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --Shak.
Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd;
preposterous. See {Ludicrous}.
※ --- {Ri*dic"u*lous*ly}, adv. --
{Ri*dic"u*lous*ness}, n.
- Despite its traffic congestion, smog, "ridiculously high housing prices" and regulatory barriers, Los Angeles rates as the best market for real estate investments, a study said Monday.
- Every year, ski resorts are desperate to tell the world they have opened on the earliest possible date - sometimes ridiculously early. In its traditional battle to be first, Keystone pulled off a master-stroke to scupper Loveland, its local rival.
- These overprogrammed, ridiculously scheduled, burnout children want real time with their parents, siblings, peers and themselves.
- He contended that it draws "a ridiculously artificial line" between those that catch the fish and those who transport or process it or supply the nets.
- Jack Matson's first class assignment will be to have his University of Michigan Business School students laugh as ridiculously as they can.
- He says stock prices are "ridiculously low" relative to corporate profits.
- "He stands up and he says `I'm the most qualified candidate' _ which is a ridiculously presumptuous statement _ and if I wasn't black I'd win and if I wasn't connected to Jesse Jackson I'd win," said Baker.
- Two scientists claim to have carried controlled nuclear fusion in a test tube, using a "ridiculously simple" technique that could transform the world's energy resources, it was reported today.
- Thomas J. Herzfeld, whose Miami-based firm specializes in closed-end funds, said both funds were "ridiculously overvalued."
- In 1984, the dollar was allowed to become sharply overvalued in terms of purchasing power parity, and in 1987 it was allowed to plunge to ridiculously low levels.
- There is big-league pork, and then there is what might be called bacon bits: the host of relatively small Federal outlays on projects that seem not only wasteful but ridiculously so.
- "It's ridiculously low," she maintains.
- In the midst of the crash, said Shorts, "there was an opportunity for us to buy at ridiculously low prices." Looking back, Hardiman says, "we took a lot of criticism early because the problem was access to our markets.