Are you certain that it isn ' t a hoax ?, 你能确定那不是一个骗局吗?
2 . 一个恶作剧
we can't be sure whether this story was fabricated as a hoax or as an earnest warning based on false information .我们不能确定这是否是编造的故事作为一个恶作剧或为认真预警基于错误的信息。
+sophisticated hoax
1 . 精心设计的骗局
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 .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。