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."
实用例句
1. The charge that Harding was a political stooge may be a canard.
关于哈丁是个政治走狗的指控可能是个谣传。
来自柯林斯例句
2. That canard was proved to be true later.
那谣言后来被证明是真的。
来自辞典例句
3. We remove these rear controls and install them as canard controls.
我们把尾部控制改为鸭式控制.
来自辞典例句
4. The story itself was a canard deliberately invented by the Armenians.
