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小词详解 | plausible
plausible 英 [ˈplɔːzəbl] 美 [ˈplɔːzəbl]
The argument that women are better at managing androgynously is a bit more plausible—though the data to support this are scant.
女性更擅长双性化管理的观点听起来似乎更有道理些,但并没有多少数据支撑。
——《经济学人》Even if imagination succeeds in rendering plausible how it might be, it cannot break completely with the way of apprehending events that is peculiar to the here and now.
就算想象力成功地把另一个时空演绎得活灵活现,它也不可能完全脱离此时此地理解事物的独特方式。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] (指论点或说法)看起来合理或可能的
他开始在护士面前痛斥那位医生。他的说辞听起来言之有理。
He proceeded to excoriate the doctor in front of the nurses. His story sounded perfectly plausible.我一进屋就把帽脱了。然后我站着不动,试图编个说得过去的借口。
I doused my hat on entering the house. Then I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.
他用她自己的围巾把她勒死了。但他那么会花言巧语,以至于骗过了所有的人。
He strangled her with her own scarf. But he was so plausible that he conned everybody.
Sure enough, when Harry finally entered the room Ron was snoring a little too loudly to be entirely plausible.
果然,当哈利终于回屋时,罗恩的鼾声响得有点不大真实。
credible: able to be believed; convincing believable: (of an account or the person relating it) able to be believed; credible specious: superficially plausible, but actually wrong