non·sense
noun/ˈnɒnsns/
/ˈnɑːnsens/, /ˈnɑːnsns/
Idioms - [uncountable, countable] ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true
愚蠢（或错误）的想法；胡说；废话 - Reports that he has resigned are nonsense.
有关他已经辞职的报道是无稽之谈。 - You're talking nonsense!
你在胡说八道！ - ‘I won't go.’ ‘Nonsense! You must go!’
“我不想去。”“胡扯！你一定得去！” - It's nonsense to say they don't care.
说他们不在意那是瞎扯。 - The idea is an economic nonsense.
这种观点是经济学上的谬论。 - Ministers have dismissed the rumours of a bribery scandal as nonsense.
部长们驳斥了有关贿赂丑闻的谣言，称其为无稽之谈。
Extra Examples- Most of his theories are arrant nonsense.
他的大多数理论都是胡说八道。 - People are talking a lot of nonsense about him being the new Michael Jordan.
人们说他是新一代迈克尔・乔丹，净是胡说八道。 - What's all this nonsense about you giving up your job?
这些关于你要辞职的胡扯到底是怎么回事？ - You don't believe that superstitious nonsense, do you?
你不相信那些迷信的无稽之谈，是吧？ - ‘I heard he's resigning.’ ‘That's nonsense.’
“我听说他要辞职。”“无稽之谈。” - How can you believe such nonsense?
你怎么能相信这样的废话？
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- arrant
- complete
- …
- spout
- talk
- put up with
- …
- nonsense about
- a load of nonsense
- a lot of nonsense
- make a nonsense of something
- …
- Reports that he has resigned are nonsense.
- [uncountable] spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense
毫无意义的话；没有意义的文章 - a book of children’s nonsense poems
一本儿童胡话诗集 - Most of the translation he did for me was complete nonsense.
他给我做的大多数翻译完全不知所云。 - The whole article seemed like complete nonsense to me.
整篇文章对我来说完全是无稽之谈。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- arrant
- complete
- …
- spout
- talk
- put up with
- …
- nonsense about
- a load of nonsense
- a lot of nonsense
- make a nonsense of something
- …
- a book of children’s nonsense poems
- [uncountable] silly or unacceptable behaviour
愚蠢的行为；冒失；不可接受的行为 - The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense.
这位新教师不会容忍任何无礼行为。 - I can't wait for this nonsense to end so that we can all be friends again.
我迫不及待地想让这件废话结束，这样我们就能再次成为朋友。
Extra Examples- I'm not going to stand any more of this nonsense.
我不想再听到这样的胡言乱语了。 - Just stop this nonsense of refusing to talk to anybody.
不要再做这种拒绝与人说话的傻事了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- arrant
- complete
- …
- spout
- talk
- put up with
- …
- nonsense about
- a load of nonsense
- a lot of nonsense
- make a nonsense of something
- …
- The new teacher won't stand for any nonsense.
Idioms
make (a) nonsense of something
- to reduce the value of something by a lot; to make something seem silly
使…的价值大打折扣；使…显得荒诞 - If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system.
如果人们可以收买警察，法律体系就会变得一文不值。 - The unemployment figures make nonsense of talk of an economic recovery.
失业数据让经济复苏的言论变得毫无意义。 - This decision makes absolute nonsense of all our hard work.
这一决定使我们的努力完全白费。
- If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system.
stuff and nonsense
- (old-fashioned, informal) used to say that something is stupid or not true
废话；胡说八道