She lulled suspicions with a plausible story.

她用一个似真的故事消除了猜疑。

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Creating a false identity used to be simply a matter of forging a few documents and finding a plausible life story.

以前要造出一个假身份很简单，准备好一些身份档案，再编好一个可信的故事就可以了。

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Although the initial account that blamed this fire on a cow kicking over a lantern was later disavowed, the fact this story was even plausible suggests how different cities used to be.

最初人们把这归咎在一头牛身上，事故是因为它踢翻灯笼而引起，虽然最后被否认，但从中也可看出城市今昔的巨大变化。

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So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

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Mr Menand tells a plausible story about the growth and importance of pragmatism in American thought and he does so without knockdown arguments.

ECONOMIST: How the pragmatists changed the way Americans thought

It's simply the human instinct to seek links and fill in the details of a plausible story to make it whole and coherent.

BBC: Go Figure: Are we related?

Even if a plausible-sounding story can be told about how some piece of behavior would have helped early hunter-gatherers survive and reproduce, it may well have become established earlier and for different reasons.

NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So