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。

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

这就是乔·莫斯令人印象深刻的处女作《农场》中刻画的令人不的似是而非的场景。

Money must be “shorn of its specious promise” he says; let the state underwrite a tiny core of deposit-taking banks.

他说，必须“去除”金钱“似是而非的承诺”；让国家为储蓄银行极少的核心业务担保。

Don't forget that L sound there. Plausible.

别忘了里的 L 音。似是而非。

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

好吧， 这是有记载的历史和似是而非的科学的问题。

The studies were junk, but the science-ish conclusions they made began to spread.

这些究都是垃圾，但它们得出的似是而非的结论却开始传播开来。

He had no plausible deniability for being there.

他没有似是而非的否认在里。

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这种似是而非的论点。

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

是的，比尔，你知道，有些人提出这种似是而非的论点，说“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，这种情况也是基于某种似是而非的紧急理由被滥用。

The specious present includes elements at all stages on the journey from sensation to image.

似是而非的现在包含了从感觉到形象的所有阶段的元素。

And that is a fun way to use the word plausible.

这是使用“似是而非” 这个词的一种有趣方式。

Everything belonging to it is included with sensation in what is called the " specious present" .

属于它的一切都包含在所谓的“似是而非的礼物” 中。

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

我还没有真正究过多， 但这是一种似是而非的情况， 这是可能的，但不太可能。

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。

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、无所事事的懒汉，坐在他的书房里闭门造车地空想出来的一套似是而非的妙论。

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。

Succession can occur within the specious present, of which we can distinguish some parts as earlier and others as later.

继承可以发生在似是而非的现在， 我们可以区分其中的某些部分是较早的， 而另一些部分是较晚的。

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的“科学”究和报告，在声称客观的媒体上一遍又一遍地播放。