Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbe
2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADJ-GRADED
愚蠢的;荒唐的;瞎说的
If you say that something is nonsensical, you think it is stupid, ridiculous, or untrue.
"the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework""that's a cockeyed idea""ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer""a contribution so small as to be laughable""it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion""a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history""her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
2. having no intelligible meaning;
"nonsense syllables""a nonsensical jumble of words"