Kafkaesque

英 [ˌkæfkəˈesk] 美 [ˌkæfkəˈesk]

adj.  卡夫卡式的; 恐怖而怪诞的

COCA.35063



牛津词典

adj.

  1. 卡夫卡式的;恐怖而怪诞的
    used to describe a situation that is confusing and frightening, especially one involving complicated official rules and systems that do not seem to make any sense
    1. My attempt to get a new passport turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare.
      我试图申请新护照的过程变成了一场官样文章的噩梦。

双语例句

  1. The Rio Tinto case gives China's foreign investment community a crash course on the Kafkaesque nature of the Law on Guarding State Secrets.
    力拓事件给在中国的外国投资者群体上了一堂速成课,内容就是中国《保守国家秘密法》卡夫卡式的怪诞本质。
  2. For the Jones family, the quest to adopt a Chinese baby took Kafkaesque turns.
    琼斯家庭申请收养一个中国小孩,却历经了“卡夫卡式”轮回。
  3. The world view regains its intrinsic logic and ceases resembling a Kafkaesque nightmare.
    我的世界观重拾了固有的逻辑,不再像卡夫卡笔下的噩梦。
  4. The kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations.
    无止尽的审问带来的不现实的恐怖。
  5. Our quest however, soon became an odyssey into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, PDF scraping and broken links.
    但是我们的追求,将很快成为一个卡夫卡式的官僚机构,PDF格式刮坏链的奥德赛。
  6. Judgement is the representative work of Kafka during his second writing climax, which indicates the formation of Kafkaesque novel.
    《审判》是卡夫卡第二个创作高峰的代表作,是被称为卡夫卡式小说形成的标志。