shaggy-dog story

shaggy-dog story

美 　英

• n.冗長無趣的笑話
• 網絡冗長雜亂的故事；長篇荒謬故事

英漢解釋

n.	1. a long drawn-out absurd story or joke, often with an ending or punchline that is anticlimactic

例句

This shaggy dog story is just a particularly weird example of the new wealth of modern China.

在印證當代中國新生財富的諸多例子中，這條長毛狗的故事只是特別怪異的一個。

He spent the whole lunchtime telling this interminable shaggy dog story about an actress and a bishop.

整個午餐時間，他都在滔滔不絕地講一名女演員和一名主教之間滑稽的故事。