英语词典 · 单词释义
bogus
英 ['bəʊgəs] 美 ['bogəs]
这里集中整理“bogus”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- adj. 假的；伪造的
- n. *
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词源 · 例句 · 用法助记提示
1. bog + us => *泛滥是我们的经济陷入泥沼。假货泛滥是我们的生活陷入泥沼。
中文词源
bogus 假的，伪造的
词源不确定。通常认为来自bogey, 鬼怪，形容其突然出现。
英文词源
- bogus
- 1838, "counterfeit money, spurious coin," American English, apparently from a slang word applied (according to some sources first in Ohio in 1827) to a counterfeiter's apparatus.
One bogus or machine impressing dies on the coin, with a number of dies, engraving tools, bank bill paper, spurious coin, &c. &c. making in all a large wagon load, was taken into possession by the attorney general of Lower Canada. [Niles' Register, Sept. 7, 1833, quoting from Concord, New Hampshire, "Statesman," Aug. 24]
Some trace this to tantrabobus, also tantrabogus, a late 18c. colloquial Vermont word for any odd-looking object, in later 19c. use "the devil," which might be connected to tantarabobs, recorded as a Devonshire name for the devil. Others trace it to the same source as bogey (n.1).
双语例句
- 1. He said these figures were bogus and totally inaccurate.
- 他说这些数字都是捏造的，完全不准确。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Police have been hampered by Mr Urquhart's use of bogus names.
- 厄克特先生使用了假名，警方的调查因此受阻。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. bogus claims of injury by workers
- 工人们虚报受伤情况索赔
来自《权威词典》
- 4. She was fooled by his bogus identity card.
- 她被他的*骗了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The telegram turned out to have been bogus.
- 电报原来是假的.
来自《简明英汉词典》