A tiny insect, trying to shake a mighty tree, is ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness. 蚍蜉撼大树,可笑不自量。
The cheap version would be derided as flawed and worthless, while the expensive version would be laughed at for being ludicrously priced. 廉价款会被数落为粗制滥造;而豪华款则会由于高昂的价格遭到嘲笑。
As oil prices drop, producers will undoubtedly renegotiate their ludicrously expensive oil service contracts, slash wages for their workforce and cut perks to bring their costs in line with the depressed price for crude. 随着油价下跌,生产企业必将重新商讨那些贵得离谱的油田服务合同,降低员工工资并削减津贴,以便让成本和下跌的油价保持一致。
It failed to offer the support Russia needed quickly enough in the early 1990s. Instead it focused, ludicrously, on who would pay the Soviet debt. 西方没能以足够快的速度在20世纪90年代早期提供俄罗斯所需的支持。相反,西方采取了荒谬的行动,纠结于谁来偿还苏联的债务。
But in the months and years that followed, I kept thinking about him sitting there on the sofa, clutching his documents and spouting these ludicrously dangerous suggestions, and I found myself spinning a story around him. 但是在之后的几个月甚至几年里,我不断想起他坐在沙发上,拿着文件,喋喋不休地说着荒唐、危险的建议,我围绕着他编了一个故事。
Since she has urged him to marry ( and her word is his command), he proposes to Elizabeth in a ludicrously pompous manner. 由于她催促他结婚(她的话对他来说即是命令),他便向伊丽莎白求婚,举止浮夸,滑稽可笑。
And what, as we desperately and ludicrously tried to convince ourselves that we were on the road to sustainability, we failed to do? 并且,当我们拼命的,可笑的试图让我们自己相信我们在可持续的道路上时,我们在那方面失败了呢?
The farm was for sale at a ludicrously low price 那座农场待售,售价低得近乎荒唐
Her fears had been ludicrously misplaced. 她的恐惧毫无根据,近乎可笑。
He flapped after the girls, looking ludicrously bat-like. 他甩着袖子去追两个女孩,那滑稽的模样活像蝙蝠。
The original CD players were ludicrously expensive, so not many people bought them. 最早的cd播放机贵得离谱,因此买的人并不多。
Even more ludicrously, this week he blamed the Americans for the OSCE's decision not to send election monitors, claiming that it was a plot to discredit the poll. 普京怒斥他的反对者拿外国人的钱,还指责西方大张旗鼓地干涉选举,更可笑的是,他还因欧洲安合组织拒绝派观察员而指责美国,宣称这是一场阴谋,意在贬低选票的信度。
It has, for example, set ludicrously rigorous language requirements for Philippine nurses even though there is a desperate shortage of Japanese people willing to care for the elderly. 比如,日本对菲律宾护工规定了严格得可笑的语言要求,尽管日本国内愿意从事老年看护工作的工人奇缺。
Irish 10-year government bond yields are still up at 7.8 per cent, a ludicrously high level given the weakness of economic activity. 爱尔兰10年期国债收益率目前仍高达7.8%,考虑到该国经济活动极其疲弱,这个水平真是高得离谱。
Scarcity has created a ludicrously inflated market. 稀缺性造就了一个膨胀得荒唐的市场。