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.

这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。

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

这一信息通常基于似是而非“科学”究和报告，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，这是哪一位饱食终日、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" .

这就是乔安·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。

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

好吧， 这是有记载历史和似是而非科学。

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

此，亚里士多德当然不会提出这种似是而非论点。

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

是，比尔，你知道，有些人提出这种似是而非论点，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，这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 亿美元报价提出严厉要求后，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这笔交易，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艺术，也绝不会屈尊于卑鄙自我宣传。

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，在结束这些偶然观察之后，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.

尽管这幅画看起来很卑鄙，但根据公认女性卓越观点，它是一位多才多艺女性肖像，被似是而非推理者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，比如每天喝八杯水这种说法。

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。

He mocked at his reasoning, calling it specious and " American" --his criteria of uncerebral phrase-making was that it was American.

他嘲笑他推理， 称其为似是而非“美国式” ——他非理性措辞标准是它是美国式。

A plausible youth with a tank on a truck once tried to persuade me to let him " exterminate" my termites.

一个在卡车上开着坦克似是而非年轻人曾经试图说服我让他“消灭”我白蚁。

I haven't really researched it that much, but here is a plausible, it's possible, but not likely, situation.

我还没有真正究过那么多， 但这是一种似是而非情况， 这是可能，但不太可能。

It was printed with the dentist's name and address and the usual schedule of " plate work" and " bridge work" and specious promises of " painless" operations.

上面印有牙医姓名和地址， 以及通常“制板工作” 和“牙桥工作” 时间表，以及“无痛” 手术似是而非承诺。

Mr. Woodhouse must not, under the specious pretence of a morning drive, and an hour or two spent at Donwell, be tempted away to his misery.

伍德豪斯先生决不能打着早上开车和在唐威尔呆上一两个小时似是而非借口，被诱惑去陷入他痛苦之中。