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tenuous |
| 释义 |
ten·u·ous /ˈtenjuəs/ adjective 1 CONNECTED WITHa situation or relationship that is tenuous is uncertain, weak, or likely to change 缥缈的;脆弱的;不确定的 For now, the band’s travel plans are tenuous. 乐队的巡演计划暂时还没确定。tenuous link/connection etc The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement. 联合和平协会和有组织的劳工运动关联甚微。 The link between her family and the King’s is rather tenuous. 她的家族和王室的关系不是很牢固。2. literaryTHIN OBJECT OR MATERIAL very thin and easily broken 纤细的;易碎的 —tenuously adverbExamples from the Corpustenuous• During this period, Ireland's contact with Rome was often difficult and tenuous.• The family link with her treasure, she says, is rather tenuous.• For both religions, the attachment of the soul to the body was quite tenuous and temporary.• Instead, extraordinarily tenuous arguments were used to relate the competition results to Scott's appointment.• These rivals scratched out a tenuous existence through a combination of herding animals and marginal cultivation of the soil.• See how indefinite are our shapes, see how tenuous our hold on this world grows?tenuous link/connection etc• Shift work added to the tenuous links between incomer men and their Shetlander neighbours.Origin tenuous (1500-1600) Latin tenuis “thin, tenuous”ten·u·ous adjectiveChineseSyllable or situation Corpus is is relationship that a tenuous |
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