| 单词 | specious |
| 释义 | spe·cious /ˈspiːʃəs/ adjective formal FALSEseeming to be true or correct, but actually false 似是而非的，貌似正确的 SYN misleading a specious argument 貌似有理的 论据Examples from the Corpusspecious• The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.• In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopular neutrality.• So a dangerous tolerance of error and a specious attitude of humility towards truth has arisen.• There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.• All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.• specious logic• Even so, the size-and-weight-of-head argument is a rather specious one.• In the history of ideas, it is always specious to divide matters into a before and an after.Origin specious (1300-1400) Latin speciosus “beautiful, easily believed”, from species; → SPECIESspe·cious adjectiveChineseSyllable seeming or be true correct, but to Corpus |
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