Beadle:american publisher who in 1860 published the first dime novel, initiating a popular series of almost 3,000 books with virtually indistinguishable plots, implausible dialogue, and lashings of violence and suspense.

比德尔:美国出版商,1860年出版第一本廉价小说,并导致此后一系列近3000本畅销书的出版。这类书以故弄玄虚的情节、令人难以置信的对话、大量的暴力和悬疑而广受欢迎。

Belgian painter whose surreal works,such as Steps of Summer(1938,depict ordinary objects in unexpected or implausible situations.

马格里特，莱恩1898-1967比利时画家，其超现实主义作品，如夏天的脚步(1938年)，往往从意想不到的或令人难以置信的角度来描述普通事物

Why these variously bogus and implausible “claimants” were ever taken seriously is another mystery, but the skill of great con-artists has powerful appeal

那些形形色色、虚假得难以使人相信的沙皇冒名继承人为什么会有人认真对待是另一个谜，可见作假大师们的演技确有巨大魅力。

Your background is entirely implausible

你的背景简直令人难以相信。

It was not implausible that one such breakthrough could enable a certain nation to dominate its rival

一项这样的突破可能帮助某一个国家压倒其竞争对手，这并非难以置信。

Alternatives which are extremely implausible need not be discussed at all

尤其没有必要讨论那些令人难以置信的替代方案。

||1:Gotham spent eight months studying Gowex, amassing far better information than investment-bank analysts, most of whom were still recommending the shares when it buckled.||2:Gotham spotted that Gowex used a little-known auditor (a classic red flag: see the Bernard Madoff case), whose fees were unusually low, as if they were based on revenue far smaller than Gowex’s books stated.||3:Often, the sleuths comb the books for ratios that are hard to manipulate.||4:Gotham also noted, for instance, that Gowex’s revenue per employee was implausible compared with rivals’—while the revenue could be inflated, it was harder to fake the headcount.

||1:Gotham耗费了8个月的时间来调查Gowex公司，收集了远比其他投行分析师更庞大的数据。||2:事实上，大部分投行分析师在Gowex公司崩溃时，仍在推荐该公司的股票。Gotham发现了Gowex公司聘请了不太知名的审计师，审计费用也异常地低廉，就像是Gowex公司是在一个远比账面价值低的利润基础上经营。||3:通常情况下，侦探们都会在账本里梳理出不容易操控的财务比率。||4:例如，Gotham也发现了Gowex公司里每位员工的平均利润与竞争对手相比呈现不合理的情况—虽然利润容易被拉高，但职工总数是很难造假的。

||1:When America’s National Academy of Sciences produced a report on the state of forensic science in 2009, it criticised many of the methods then in use.||2:Citing earlier research by Dr Dror, the report’s authors stated, for example, that fingerprint examiners’ claims of zero error rates were scientifically implausible .||3:DNA, however, was spared their criticism.||4:Now Dr Dror and Greg Hampikian, a forensic biologist at Boise State University in Idaho, have published a study in Science & Justice that suggests all is not shipshape in the domain of the double helix either.

||1:当美国国家科学院在2009年发表了一片关于司法科学现状的报告时，它批判了很多当时正在应用的鉴定方式。||2:引用这篇报道的作者Dror博士早前做的研究，例如，指纹鉴定者宣称的零误差在科学上是不合理的。||3:然而DNA省去了他们的批判。||4:现在，Dror博士和博伊西的爱达荷州立大学的法医学生物学家Greg Hampikian在“科学与正义”上发表了一篇研究，表明所有的东西都不是井然有序的，在双螺旋线的领域里也不是。

||1:Even so, it is not implausible to see in it the beginnings of a sea-change in French capitalism.||2:The long-standing assumption that with the state’s blessing, the destinies of entire industries should be overseen by a charmed circle of interconnected people from the grandes ecoles and the haute bourgeoisie seems to be wearing thinner these days.||3:One line in Mr Drahi’s CV implies he is part of that circle—he attended the elite ecole Polytechnique—but rather than continuing on the usual route via public service and politics to the top of a giant French corporation, the son of humble Moroccan teachers pursued a rather Anglo-Saxon career as a buyer, seller and stitcher-together of cable and telecoms companies around the globe, alongside buy-out firms.

||1:即便如此，法国资本主义史上这样一个如此重大的变革依然是令人难以置信的。||2:一个长期存在的猜想就是在国家的庇佑下，法国整个实业的前途应该是在一些来自grandes ecoles以及haute bourgeoisie（法国中产阶级上层）的互通有无排外团体的严密监管之下的，这些些日子，他们看起来似乎衣着单薄。||3:从Drahi先生的简历看来他似乎也是也是这个团体之中的一部分——因为他参与了整个的法国高等工商学院的整个精英班的学习——但是比起沿着通过公共服务以及政治活动等成为法国的巨头企业这一条寻常之路，这位摩洛哥普通老师的儿子追随了盎格鲁-撒克逊的道路作为一个买家，卖家和有线电视遍布全球的电信公司，他与全面收购并驾齐驱。

for example, that fingerprint examiners’ claims of zero error rates were scientifically implausible .

例如，指纹鉴定者宣称的零误差在科学上是不合理的。

At times this book bears the stain of a debut: the circumstances too implausible ; the kids too precocious; the similes too frequent and the album references too cool (a Facebook-ready list).

有时，这本书也会出现处女作的缺陷——如背景不真实，儿童太过早熟，比喻太频繁，参考书目太酷（一张脸谱列表）。

At his birth, in 1881, Lu Xun’s future as a professional iconoclast would have looked implausible .

1881年鲁迅出生时，他未来将成为向封建文化宣战的文化名人简直是不可置信的。

Fifty years later, economists continue to claim justification for implausible assumptions on the basis of his argument.

50年后的今天，经济学家们仍在以弗里德曼的论点为基础，为那些有悖常理的假设寻找合理性。

The Tories have so far resisted calls to pledge tax cuts, saying the recession makes such a pledge implausible .

保守党迄今拒绝承诺减税，表示经济衰退使这种承诺不可信。

Unfortunately, the idea of providing and delivering so many drugs to so many people is logistically implausible .

不幸的是，提供和投放数量如此巨大的药物给如此众多的人在后勤供应上简直是天方夜谈。

On the collectors’ side, the old provenances once claimed for the items can look implausible in hindsight.

从收藏者的角度来说，原来宣称的文物的古老出处事后来看可能非常可疑。

The answer is yes, but on conditions that seem increasingly implausible if we extrapolate current policies.

答案是肯定的，但有一些前提条件。如果我们延续当前的政策，这些前提条件似乎越来越无法成立。

But even that is implausible because “Miss Lillian” was then not only very much alive but also quite unlike the Queen Mother.

但即便这样也有悖常理，因为“莉莲小姐”（卡特的母亲）不仅活得好好的，而且她一点也不像女王母亲。

But how to achieve them, short of an implausible single European army?

但是在缺乏一个难以实现的统一欧洲部队的情况下如何实现呢？

But it is implausible to suppose that this is all that’s going on.

但要说所有人都是这样，实在是难以令人信服。

The third argument is not ridiculous, but such a happy outcome seems implausible , given the situation in which Greece finds itself.

第三个理由谈不上不荒谬，但考虑到希腊目前所处的形势，如此乐观的结果似乎不太可能出现。

Many scientists with the necessary skills are reluctant to investigate therapies they think are implausible .

而许多具有所需技能的科学家都不愿意对他们认为是不可信的治疗方法进行研究。

While a focus on cybersecurity is important, analysts believe that cyber terrorist threats to computer structures are implausible .

关注网络安全是重要的，但批评人士认为威胁计算机结构的网络恐怖主义不合情理。

If I didn’t know my economic history, I’d find the idea implausible .

假如我晓得我的经济史，我就会觉得这种想法不大可能。

Given how much money Mr Peterson has made that seems implausible , but it hints at something underlying much business philanthropy.

鉴于皮特森赚得的财富，这似乎有些令人难以置信，但它揭示了大部分商业慈善行为的深层动机。

Implausible though this may sound, the theoretical mechanism behind such an effect is pretty well understood.

尽管这听起来或许让人难以置信，但蕴含在这种影响后面的理论机制却极易理解。

The idea that they would prove eternally alien to particular cultures has long seemed quite implausible .

那种认为人们会永远抵触某些特定文化的观点，早就显得不可信了。

(Other fields of economics have not been deluded by this implausible idea and therefore do not face the same criticism. )

如此众多的学者，信奉如此荒谬的观点，实为罕见（其它经济学领域没有被这种不合情理的观点所迷惑，因此没有受到同样的批评。）

And if Gruber were a highly implausible candidate for this kind of consulting, you might suspect that this was one of them.

如果格鲁伯是这类咨询协议的一个非常令人难以置信的候选人，您可能会怀疑这是否是其中之一。

Predictions that Japan would over-take the US, popular in the late 1980s, were always implausible .

上世纪80年代末，关于日本将超越美国的预测一直令人难以信服。