apocryphal

apocryphal什么意思,apocryphal翻译

基本解释

adj.: 流传甚广但不足为凭的；虚构的
网络: 假冒的；伪经的；不足凭信的

权威解释

• 流传甚广但不足为凭的；虚构的:

  well known, but probably not true

英汉解释

• 假冒的

同义词

adj.mythicalfictionaluntruelegendarymade-up

反义词

adj.true

例句

• This is almost surely apocryphal because anyone who knew Rand"s work would know how much she disliked religion in almost any form.

  几乎可以肯定，这句话是杜撰的，因为读过兰德作品的每个人都知道，她非常厌恶任何形式的宗教。

• An empty cupboard is no better than an empty cup, she said in an apocryphal aside.

  她假装不经意地说：一个空橱子和一个空杯子一样没什么不同。

• His hopes rested, in part, on an article he read somewhere, which very well might be apocryphal but nevertheless allowed him to dream.

  他的这种感觉部分来自于一篇他在某个地方看到的一篇文章，也不知道是谁写的，但是尽管如此至少给了他梦想的希望。

• Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed by their tellers to be true.

  都市流言是现代民间传说的一种，那些虚假故事被它们的讲述者演绎得可以以假乱真。

• It sounds like an apocryphal story, but Nigel Woodward, London-based director of financial services at Intel, insists it is true.

  这听起来像是个瞎编的故事，但在伦敦工作的英特尔金融服务部门主管奈杰尔•伍德沃德（NigelWoodward）坚持说，这是真的。

• One apocryphal tale centred on Indian workers who had been given the job of keying the results of the latest British census into a database.

  这里有个道听途说的故事，主人公是位印度职员，他需要将最近一次英国人口普查的统计结果输入电脑数据库。

• When he was finally revealed to be a large sluglike creature in Return of the Jedi, Marvel"s Jabba was proven apocryphal.

  他最终在《绝地归来》中以蛞蝓形生物亮相后，惊奇版的贾巴被证明是假冒的。

• There is no record of the context of this admonition, and the quotation itself may be accurate or even apocryphal.

  拿破仑是在什么场合发出这一警告的，没有记载可查，引用的话本身可能并不准确，甚至有可能是伪造的。

• The myth of the three trees, as it appears in certain apocryphal gospels and apocalypses, is merely a doublet of the myth of the three ages.

  三棵树的神话出现在创世纪及末世纪，仅是三个时代神话的对应。

• One (possibly apocryphal) tale tells of reindeer dying because they were unable to breathe, so thick were the clouds of insects.

  传说（也许不是真的）讲到有驯鹿因为空中的昆虫稠密到不能呼吸的地步而死去。