汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 似是而非
似是而非
apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
似 Like / 是 Correct / 非 wrong / It seems to be right, but in fact it is wrong
《孟子.尽心下》"孔子曰'恶似而非者。'"后以"似是而非"指事物似真而实假,或似正确而实错误『王充《论衡.死伪》"世多似是而非,虚伪类真,故杜伯﹑庄子义之语,往往而存。"晋葛洪《抱朴子.对俗》"或难曰神仙方书,似是而非。"
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

这些话实际上毫无根据,似是而非的。

Such talk is actually specious and groundless.

演说者讲了这么多似是而非的笑话,显然是迎合低级趣味。

The speaker was clearly playing to the gallery when he uttered so many doubtful jokes.

他于1979年因似是而非的腐败指控被拘捕。

He was arrested in 1979 on spurious corruption charges.

在非洲大舞台上大猩猩有点象似是而非的隽语。

The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene.

我瞥了一眼准备好的问题,但它们眼下有点似是而非了。

I glanced at my questions, but now they seemed beside the point.

选举的修复可能会是复杂的,可能只是似是而非的版本,即可能以粗燥的、明显人为形式。

Electoral fixes can come in sophisticated and just about plausible versions, or they can come in crude and patently contrived forms.

这种消失的观点瓦解了除自利和自助终极目标的理性化算计之外的其他似是而非的动机。

This negative view dismisses alternative plausible motivations beyond self-interest and beyond rational calculation of self-serving ends.

提摩太阿,你要保守所托付你的,躲避世俗的虚谈,和那敌真道似是而非的学问。

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge.

布莱希特对喜剧及史诗剧场的理论:他的期望及其似是而非之处(他是否真的影响了你对本剧的体会?)

Brecht's Theories of Comedy and of Epic Theater: What are his Expectations, and How Plausible are They (Do his effects actually work, in your experience of the play?)

多少次,在支吾其辞、在以自私为出发点的一种背叛的似是而非的推论之后,他听见愤怒的良心在他耳边狂呼:“阴谋家!”

How many times, after an equivoque, after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "a trip!"