specious基本解释
adj.似是而非的;华而不实的
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副词: speciously 名词: speciosity
基本词汇
adj.似是而非的;华而不实的
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副词: speciously 名词: speciosity
adj
1. based on pretense
deceptively pleasing
e.g. the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
meretricious praise
a meretricious argument
Synonym: gildedmeretricious
2. plausible but false
e.g. a specious claim
spurious inferences
Synonym: spurious
1. 似是而非的;貌似真实的
Something that is specious seems to exist or be true, but is not real or true.
e.g. 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。
1. 徒有其表的:speciosity 徒有其表 | specious 徒有其表的 | speciously 外观好看地
2. 徒有其表的,外观美观的:speciosity,徒有其表,似是而非 | specious,徒有其表的,外观美观的 | auspex,占卜,avis是鸟的意思,看鸟的飞行状态来占卜
3. 外表美观的:Specific 明确的 | Specimen 样品 | Specious 外表美观的
What are these specious gifts, these paltry gains?
出自:G. CrabbeA policy which had a specious show of liberality.
出自:Ld MacaulayThe specious self-assurance of those..conscious of inferior birth.
出自:R. C. Hutchinson