bogus

英 ['b??g?s] 美['bog?s]

擴(kuò)展詞匯TEM8GRE低頻詞

1. bog + us => 假幣泛濫是我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)陷入泥沼。假貨泛濫是我們的生活陷入泥沼。

bogus 假的，偽造的

詞源不確定。通常認(rèn)為來(lái)自bogey, 鬼怪，形容其突然出現(xiàn)。

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).

1. He said these figures were bogus and totally inaccurate.: 他說(shuō)這些數(shù)字都是捏造的，完全不準(zhǔn)確。

2. Police have been hampered by Mr Urquhart's use of bogus names.: 厄克特先生使用了假名，警方的調(diào)查因此受阻。

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