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

但即使一个似而非的理由也能促使人们忙碌起来，忙碌的人比闲散的人更快乐。

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

这关于似而非的同源词——同样被叫做误导词——两种语言中看着一样但意思不同的单词。

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而非的“科学”研究和报告，在声称客观的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，这哪一位饱食终日、无所的懒汉，坐在他的书房里闭门造车地空想出来的一套似而非的妙论。

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

这就乔安·拉莫斯令人印象深刻的处女作《农场》中刻画的令人不安的似而非的场景。

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

好吧， 这有载的历史和似而非的科学的问题。

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

因此，亚里士多德当然不会提出这种似而非的论点。

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

的，比尔，你知道，有些人提出这种似而非的论点，说什么“那温和的穆斯林呢？”

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

即便如此，这种情况也基于某种似而非的紧急理由被滥用。

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 亿美元的报价提出严厉要求后，由于对机器人活动的一些相当似而非的说法，他在一年中的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，我的父亲，正如我所说的，一个博学的人，从未学过使伟人受宠若惊的似而非的艺术，也绝不会屈尊于卑鄙的自我宣传。

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，在结束这些偶然的观察之后，让我回到更似而非的奴隶制，它束缚着女人的灵魂，使她永远处于无知的束缚之下。

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，但根据公认的女性卓越的观点，它一位多才多艺的女性的肖像，被似而非的推理者与人类的卓越区分开来。

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而非的科学方式讲道理，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而非的推论， 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.

他嘲笑他的推理， 称其为似而非的“美国式” ——他的非理性措辞标准它美国式的。

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的似而非的年轻人曾经试图说服我让他“消灭”我的白蚁。

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

我还没有真正研究过那么多， 但这一种似而非的情况， 这可能的，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.

上面印有牙医的姓名和地址， 以及通常的“制板工作” 和“牙桥工作” 时间表，以及“无痛” 手术的似而非的承诺。

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的似而非的借口，被诱惑去陷入他的痛苦之中。