Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances.

如果你追问，他闪烁其词，似是而非，避开重点。

But even a specious justification can motivate people to be busy and that people who are busy are happier than people who are idle.

但即使是一个似是而非理由也能促使人们忙碌起来，忙碌人比闲散人更快乐。

This is about false cognates – also called false friends - words that look the same in two languages but have different meanings.

是关于似是而非同源词——同样被叫做误导词——两种语言中看着一样但意思不同单词。

Well, yes and no; yes because it's targeting a foreign invader, no because the inflammatory response is large and uncontrolled and leads to destruction of the cells in the gastrointestinal tract.

实际上，似是而非；从攻击外来侵略度来说，免疫系统在发挥积极作用；但由于种炎症反应过于强烈和不可控制，导致胃肠道细胞遭到破坏，最终引发负面作用。

This message, often based on specious " scientific" studies and reports, gets played over and over again on media outlets purporting to be objective.

一信息通常基于似是而非“科学”研究和告，在声称客观媒体上一遍又一遍地播放。

It is evidently the theory of some armchair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.

显然，是哪一位饱食终日、无所事事懒汉，坐在他书房里闭门造车地空想出来一套似是而非妙论。

This is the unnervingly plausible set-up for Joanne Ramos's impressive debut novel, " The Farm" .

就是乔安妮·拉莫斯令人印象深刻处女作《农场》中刻画令人不安似是而非场景。

Don't forget that L sound there. Plausible.

别忘了那里 L 音。似是而非。

Well, there is the matter of recorded history and plausible science.

好吧， 是有记载历史和似是而非科学问题。

B) It is difficult to sound natural or plausible.

B) 很难听起来自然或似是而非。

And so Aristotle, of course, has no such specious arguments.

因此，亚里士多德当然不会提出种似是而非论点。

Yes, there are people, you know, this specious argument about what about moderate Muslims, Bill?

是，比尔，你知道，有些人提出种似是而非论点，说什么“那温和穆斯林呢？”

Even in this case, this is being abused on some sort of specious emergency ground.

即便如此，种情况也是基于某种似是而非紧急理由被滥用。

After charging in hard with the $44 billion offer, he spent most of the year trying to weasel out of the deal because of some pretty specious claims about bot activity, eventually caving once Twitter took him to court.

在对 440 亿美元价提出严厉要求后，由于对机器人活动一些相当似是而非说法，他在一年中大部分时间里都在试图摆脱笔交易，最终在 Twitter 将他告上法庭后屈服了。

I will briefly state, then, that my father, who was, as I have said, a learned man, had never learnt the specious arts by which the great are flattered, and would never condescend to the despicable pursuit of self-advertisement.

然后，我将简要说明，我父亲，正如我所说，是一个博学人，从未学过使伟人受宠若惊似是而非术，也绝不会屈尊于卑鄙自我宣传。

But the Puritan soldier and magistrate was not a man to be turned aside from his well-considered scheme, either by dread of the wizard's ghost, or by flimsy sentimentalities of any kind, however specious.

但位清教徒士兵和地方法官并不是一个会因为害怕巫师鬼魂或任何一种脆弱多愁善感而放弃他深思熟虑计划人，无论多么似是而非。

But, to have done with these episodical observations, let me return to the more specious slavery which chains the very soul of woman, keeping her for ever under the bondage of ignorance.

但是，在结束些偶然观察之后，让我回到更似是而非奴隶制，它束缚着女人灵魂，使她永远处于无知束缚之下。

Abject as this picture appears, it is the portrait of an accomplished woman, according to the received opinion of female excellence, separated by specious reasoners from human excellence.

尽管幅画看起来很卑鄙，但根据公认女性卓越观点，它是一位多才多女性肖像，被似是而非推理与人类卓越区分开来。

A lot of them sound like they're making sense in a sort of science-ish way, like the eight glasses of water a day thing.

很多听起来好像在以一种似是而非科学方式讲道理，比如每天喝八杯水种说法。

The error lies in proceeding to the plausible inference that, when an individual saves, he will increase aggregate investment by an equal amount.

错误在于继续做出似是而非推论， 即当一个人储蓄时， 他将等量地增加总投资。