before 1850, from French canard "a hoax," literally "a duck" (from Old French quanart, probably echoic of a duck's quack); said by Littré to be from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié "to half-sell a duck," thus, from some long-forgotten joke, "to cheat."
雙語例句
1. The charge that Harding was a political stooge may be a canard.
關于哈丁是個政治走狗的指控可能是個謠傳。
來自柯林斯例句
2. That canard was proved to be true later.
那謠言后來被證明是真的。
來自辭典例句
3. We remove these rear controls and install them as canard controls.
我們把尾部控制改為鴨式控制.
來自辭典例句
4. The story itself was a canard deliberately invented by the Armenians.