Nonsense

(noun.) a message that seems to convey no meaning.

(adj.) having no intelligible meaning; 'nonsense syllables'; 'a nonsensical jumble of words' .

整理:默娜

• To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Shirley, you talk nonsense. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Well, I won't go to any more of their cursed nonsense, Tom, said St. Clare; on my honor, I won't. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Nonsense, Christian. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It's all nonsense to talk to me about slaves _enjoying_ all this! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• When do you mean to leave off talking nonsense? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Nonsense,' replied Mr. Weller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This is all nonsense. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I'll write--just any cheerful nonsense that comes into my head--shall I? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• No doubt, thought I, it is all nonsense. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

校对:迈克尔