shaggy-dog story

英英释义

• n.

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

英汉例句

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

  在印证当代中国新生财富的诸多例子中，这条长毛狗的故事只是特别怪异的一个。

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

  整个午餐时间，他都在滔滔不绝地讲一名女演员和一名主教之间滑稽的故事。