apocryphal

adj. 伪的；可疑的

adj.

伪造的；真实性可疑的；作者不明的；次经的

英英释义

apocryphal[ ə'pɔkrifəl ]

adj.

being of questionable authenticity

of or belonging to the Apocrypha

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
哥伦布竖蛋这个真伪不明的故事十分有趣。

These are apocryphal advertisements in order to racket from customers.
那些都是欺骗顾客花钱的虚假广告。

Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
有关他私生活的事可能大部分都是虚构的。

Apocryphal tales gallop across the country with lightning speed.
不真实的谣言以闪电般的速度在这个国家飞速传播。

权威例句

apocryphal

apocryphal: [16] Apocryphal is a ‘secondgeneration’ adjective; the original adjective form in English was apocrypha (‘The writing is apocrypha when the author thereof is unknown’, John de Trevisa 1387). This came, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek apókruphos ‘hidden’, a derivative of the compound verb apokrúptein ‘hide away’, which was formed from the prefix apo- ‘away, off’ and the verb krúptein ‘hide’ (source of English crypt and cryptic).It was applied as a noun to writings in general that were of unknown authorship, and in the 16th century came to be used specifically as the collective term for the uncanonical books of the Old Testament. It was perhaps confusion between the adjectival and nominal roles of apocrypha that led to the formation of the new adjective apocryphal towards the end of the 16th century.=> crypt, cryptic

apocryphal (adj.)

1580s, "of doubtful authenticity," from Apocrypha + -al (1). Middle English had apocrive (late 14c.) in same sense.

1. The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.

哥伦布竖蛋这个真伪不明的故事十分有趣。

2. These are apocryphal advertisements in order to racket from customers.

那些都是欺骗顾客花钱的虚假广告。

3. 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。

4. Apocryphal tales gallop across the country with lightning speed.

不真实的谣言以闪电般的速度在这个国家飞速传播。

5. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages.

只有一些流传下来的故事和传说，但大多数都不可信。

6. This ExcerptaRiccardi manuscript has been dated around 1580, and therefore the anecdote is probably apocryphal.

这份“里卡迪文摘”手稿大约写于1580年，也因此这宗轶事很可能是杜撰的。

7. This ExcerptaRiccardi manuscript has been dated around 1580, and therefore the anecdote is probably apocryphal.

这份“里卡迪文摘”手稿大约写于1580年，也因此这宗轶事很可能是杜撰的。