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Change log entry 56697
Processed by: ycandau (2015-03-20 21:37:16 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 49886 - submitted by 'monigeria' >>
this needs a little work...

gf says: “把没有关系的事物说成有关系, 把没有某种意义的事物说成有某种意义”

moe: "硬把不相干的事物凑合在一起, 勉强比附"

english dictionarys have things like:

make a farfetched comparison
make an irrelevant comparison
give a strained interpretation
draw a forced analogy
give a strained interpretation

z:
◎ 牵强附会 qiānqiǎng-fùhuì
[give a forced interpretation] 生拉硬扯。把没有关系的事物勉强地说成有关系;把没有某种意义的事物说成有某种意义
而厥后则牵强附会之说大行。——鲁迅《人之历史》

my added def. needs a lot of work too.
Diff:
- 牽強附會 牵强附会 [qian1 qiang3 fu4 hui4] /far-fetched and hard to believe (idiom)/
# + 牽強附會 牵强附会 [qian1 qiang3 fu4 hui4] /far-fetched and hard to believe (idiom)/to make or give an irrelevant comparison or interpretation/
+ 牽強附會 牵强附会 [qian1 qiang3 fu4 hui4] /to make an irrelevant comparison or interpretation (idiom)/
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