| 单词 | make (a) nonsense of something |
| 释义 | make (a) nonsense of somethingmake (a) nonsense of something British EnglishBrEMEANING# to make an action, system, or plan useless or ineffective 使某事物失去作用[意义] Having the army still in power makes a nonsense of last year’s elections. 军队继续掌权使得去年的选举失去了意义。 Examples from the Corpus make (a) nonsense of something• Besides, the advent of a National Lottery next year could make a nonsense of the strategy's premises about funding.• It is just electricity that makes a nonsense of natural design.• However, this makes nonsense of the notion of having word units stored at this level.• They omitted from their calculations two factors which were to make a nonsense of their plans.• How it rained in Arbroath; trying to see through curtains of falling water makes a nonsense of note-taking.• A voice which ordered the clocks back, which made a nonsense of time.• Actions in nuisance, if successful, would make a nonsense of the whole scheme. → make (a) nonsense of something at nonsense(1) |
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