Are you certain that it isn ' t a hoax ?, 你能確定那不是一個騙局嗎?
2 . 一個惡作劇
we can't be sure whether this story was fabricated as a hoax or as an earnest warning based on false information .我們不能確定這是否是編造的故事作為一個惡作劇或為認真預警基于錯誤的信息。
+sophisticated hoax
1 . 精心設計的騙局
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 .總而言之,伏尼契手稿若不是極為罕見的密碼或奇怪的未知文字,就是個精心設計的騙局,以往一直沒有明確的方法可以打開僵局。