specious

英 [ˈspiːʃəs]

美 [ˈspiːʃəs]

adj.  似是而非的; 貌似有理的

GRE

BNC.23870 / COCA.23653

牛津词典

adj.

• 似是而非的；貌似有理的
  seeming right or true but actually wrong or false
  1. a specious argument
     似是而非的论点

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 似是而非的;貌似真实的
  Something that isspeciousseems to exist or be true, but is not real or true.
  1. It is unlikely that the Duke was convinced by such specious arguments.
     公爵不太可能相信这种似是而非的论点。

英英释义

adj

• based on pretense
  1. the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
  2. meretricious praise
  3. a meretricious argument
  Synonym:gildedmeretricious
• plausible but false
  1. a specious claim
  2. spurious inferences
  Synonym:spurious

双语例句

• It is unlikely that the Duke was convinced by such specious arguments.
  公爵不太可能相信这种似是而非的论点。
• Such talk is actually specious and groundless.
  这些话实际上毫无根据，似是而非的。
• In fact, a careful analysis of these two points will know all specious.
  其实，仔细分析就知道这两点都似是而非。
• Additional of kind of material apply, the symbolic design of abstraction lets these Chinese style elements become ambiguous, specious, let popular feeling relax.
  另类材料的运用，抽象化的符号设计让这些中式元素变得模糊，似是而非，让人心弛。
• Wow, I don't mind people arguing for other players as MVP, but this writer's method is so fraudulent and specious.
  哇，我不介意人们讨论其他球员拿MVP，但是这个作者的方法也太欺诈和华而不实了吧。
• Argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading.
  有意误导而提出似是而非或过分影射的论点。
• Such talk, however plausible, is actually specious and groundless.
  这些话，讲起来好像有道理，实际上是毫无根据、似是而非的空谈。
• Second, the debt was never authorised by the Venezuelan parliament due to the specious argument that it was not debt, but finance, because it was not to be paid in dollars but in oil.
  第二，这些债务从未获得委内瑞拉议会的授权，原因是一个似是而非的观点&因为这些钱不是用美元偿还而是用石油，所以这并非债务而是融资。
• Ralph had been deceived by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool.
  拉尔夫被那海滩水潭看上去很深的假象所蒙蔽。
• Specious reasoning; the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality-Ethel Albert.
  似是而非的推理；这个似是而非的推论来自模糊的因果关系-埃塞尔艾伯特。