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.
