音标:['speiʃәs] ;
a. 徒有其表的, 似是而非的, 外表美观的
s. plausible but false

考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
形容词100%

specious的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. Such talk is actually specious and groundless.这些话实际上毫无根据, 似是而非的。
  2. This specious statement sidesteps the real issue.这是避重就轻、似是而非的一种说法。
  3. There are some specious concepts in analysis on status of building energy efficiency.在对建筑节能现状的分析中有一些模糊概念。

经典引文

  • What are these specious gifts, these paltry gains?

    出自:G. Crabbe
  • A policy which had a specious show of liberality.

    出自:Ld Macaulay
  • The specious self-assurance of those..conscious of inferior birth.

    出自:R. C. Hutchinson
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