4.IN SUMMARY, the Voynich manuscript appeared to be either an extremely unusual code, a strange unknown language or a sophisticated hoax, and there was no obvious way to resolve the impasse.
总而言之，伏尼契手稿若不是极为罕见的密码或奇怪的未知文字，就是个精心设计的骗局，以往一直没有明确的方法可以打开僵局。
5.Some of these have already been discovered, particularly in South America, though they have been either written up in your tabloid newspapers and passed off as a hoax or fearfully kept in secret.
这些之中的一些被发现，特别在南美洲，虽然它们已经通过你们的新闻小报登载过和作为欺骗或者保存的隐秘终止了。
6.Unless the warning is from a source you recognize, chances are good that the warning is a virus hoax .
除非该警告是从源头你承认，机会是很好的警示是一个病毒的骗术。
7.Most people who have studied the Voynich manuscript agreed that Voynichese was too complex to be a hoax.
大多数研究过伏尼契手稿的人认为伏尼契文十分复杂，不可能是骗局。
8.Something, such as a prank, intended as a hoax or joke; a spoof.
戏弄目的在于欺骗或开玩笑，例如恶作剧；哄骗，戏弄
9.After all, although Bigfoot proponents do not dispute the Wallace hoax, they correctly note that tales of the giant Yeti living in the Himalayas and Native American lore about Sasquatch wandering around the Pacific Northwest emerged long before Wallace pulled his prank in 1958.
大脚支持者虽然没有为华莱士的恶作剧多加辩护，但他们还是正确地指出，比华莱士1958年的恶作剧更早之前，就有喜马拉雅山的巨大雪人，以及美洲原住民传统所谓的「大脚印」，在太平洋岸西北一带出没的传说。
10.After Sokals hoax, a vehement "science debate" broke out in the global academic community between postmodernists and science warriors.
“索卡尔事件”后,在全球学术界掀起了一场激烈的后现代思想家与科学卫士之间的“科学大论战”。
