汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 牵强附会
牵强附会 (牽強附會)
to make an irrelevant comparison or interpretation (idiom)
To assert that something that does not have a certain meaning has a certain meaning / It also refers to pulling unrelated things together and mixing them together
把彼此无关或关系不大的事物勉强凑合在一起民间流传的杨家将故事本身,有许多牵强附会,不合历史事实。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他的笑话有些牵强附会

His jokes were somewhat farfetched.

这是事实,但作为乐观理由未免太牵强附会了。

That is true, and a small reason for optimism.

奥斯威辛和橡树岭之间的相似之处似乎是牵强附会的。

The analogy between auschwitz and oak ridge seems forced.

想想看,我们多么经常地看到律师为他们的客户编制牵强附会的理论;记者为了获得好故事而冒充别人。

Think how often we see lawyers constructing far-fetched theories on behalf of their clients or reporters misrepresenting themselves in order to gain access to good stories.

他使人民感到:有着某种共同的事业、那种夹杂着灾难和牵强附会的历史,属于我们所有的人,就是说,我们作为美国人,有着某些共同的东西。

He makes people feel there is some kind of a common enterprise, that history, with its tragedies and travesties, belongs to all of us, that we have something in common as Americans.

然而,和很多长篇剧集不同的是,该剧的制作人并不是剧情牵强附会的罪魁祸首,因为该剧的试播集为追求新奇一直悬念不断,从不着陆。

Yet unlike many long-running dramas, its producers can't be accused of jumping the shark – because the pilot episode opened suspended in mid-air over the shark, and never landed.