例文・使い方で印象づける「preposterous」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... He was wondering if theMaori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he wasabout to unload upon him... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...How could Percy—a marked man if ever there was one—go from prison to prison to inquire about Jeanne? The very idea seemed preposterous...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...It was preposterous and impossible...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...Poor Bombay was hoarse, but Asmani still smiled; and I relented, congratulating myself that the preposterous demand, which was simply robbery, was no worse...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
... that in Jamaica all possible means had been used to keep up the stock by breeding; but how preposterous was this...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...Instead of preserving the deer of the South,the South reaches out for the utterly impossible antelopes ofAfrica, and the preposterous hippopotamus...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...In these preposterous and unseemly tasks no care istaken to continue the mental development on lines which have beenestablished by long use...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...He regarded it as a truism unworthy of notice; he evidently felt that a comparison between love and dollars was preposterous...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
..." Another woman writes on the urn of herson Marius Exoriens: "The preposterous laws of deathhave torn him from my arms! As I have the advantage ofyears, so ought death to have reaped me first...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...The rule that tastes cannot be disputed isnow the only rule that prevails, and, behind this rule, the basest,meanest and most preposterous individual claims are able to make theirinfluence felt...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
..."Nothing is preposterous nowadays, Nanette...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930」
...He learns to look upon himself as anunappreciated Newton, and to see the bitterest malevolence in those whoventure to question his preposterous notions...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
...And now, more preposterous than all, eachatom has an attractive power for every other atom of the universe...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
... “Kill you,” returned Dawes, in a tone of surprise at so preposterous a question...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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