"Go and tell her to take off that preposterous pink silk gauze, and put the black one on, whether it is too short or not. She has done with finery!"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"La Palferine owed his tailor a thousand francs, and the man instead of going himself sent his assistant to ask for the money. The assistant found the unfortunate debtor up six pairs of stairs at the back of a yard at the further end of the Faubourg du Roule. The room was unfurnished save for a bed (such a bed!), a table, and such a table! La Palferine heard the preposterous demand--'A demand which I should qualify as illegal,' he said when he told us the story, 'made, as it was, at seven o'clock in the morning.'英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
The dragoman wrestled then evidently with a desire to protect this mine from outside fingers. "I-I think two gold piece plenty." "Take them," said Coleman. It seemed to him preposterous that this idiot with a broken head should interpolate upon his tragedy. " Afterward you and the groom get the three horses and we will start for Athens at once."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
But I won't buy in as partner with any one. I'll buy Pari-Sulay, but I'll put only ten boys on it and clear slowly. Also, I'll invest in some old ketch and take out a trading license. For that matter, I'll go recruiting on Malaita."
She looked for protest, and found it in Sheldon's clenched hand and in every line of his clean-cut face. "Go ahead and say it," she challenged. "Please don't mind me. I'm--I'm getting used to it, you know. Really I am."
"I wish I were a woman so as to tell you how preposterously insane and impossible it is," he blurted out.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
The whole thing was too preposterous to be true. He gnawed his moustache and smoked cigarette after cigarette. Satan, back from a prowl around the compound, ran up to him and touched his hand with a cold, damp nose. Sheldon caressed the animal's ears, then threw himself into a chair and laughed heartily. What would the Commissioner of the Solomons think? What would his people at home think? And in the one breath he was glad that the partnership had been effected and sorry that Joan Lackland had ever come to the Solomons. Then he went inside and looked at himself in a hand-mirror.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
Stockmann (advancing towards him). To think you could do such a preposterous thing! Risking Katherine's money in this way, and putting me in such a horribly painful dilemma! When I look at you, I think I see the devil himself--.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
I suppose you're here to say that Lord Flintshire would find the prospect of a black son-in-law preposterous.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I know this all sounds preposterous to you, but if -if you go through my notes -- We've been through your notes.美剧 · 《House of Cards》