The canard was to be proved true later. 那谣言后来被证明是真的。
That canard was proved to be true later. 那谣言后来被证明是真的。
Someone who has the common sense would not belive the canard. 有点常识的人都不会相信这样的谣言.
canard
[ noun ] a deliberately misleading fabrication <noun.communication>
Canard \Ca*nard"\, n. [F., properly, a duck.] An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
The contest operators - who had pronounced the Tass news report that the sweepstakes was a "cosmic canard" a misunderstanding - appeared today before a grand jury.
"I want to put to rest that canard" that the money supply doesn't matter, he said.