improbable
[im'prɔbəbl]
adj.不大可能的, 不像会发生的, 似不可信的
例句与用法:
The state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability.
不可能不大可能或不可能的状态; 不可能性
A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect.
轻喜剧一种轻松的戏剧形式,其中极为荒谬可笑的情节背景,夸张的角色和一些闹剧的成分以表现幽默的效果
词形变化:
副词: improbably | 名词: improbableness |
a.
不大可能的; 未必会发生的; 未必确实的
an improbable idea
不大可能有的念头
It's improbable that she'll accept the invitation.
她不大可能接受邀请。
improbable
词形变化:
副词: improbably | 名词: improbableness |
同义词:
unlikely | doubtful | questionable | marvelous | romantic | fishy | unbelievable | unconvincing | implausible | dubious | impracticable | incredible | marvellous | tall |
反义词:
probable |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.似不可信的
unlikely
doubtful
questionable
同义参见:
romantic
fishy
marvelous
反义:
a.未必然的; 不可信的
probable
improbable[im'prɔbəbl]adj.1.■不大可能的,未必会的;未必确实的2.■奇异的;荒谬的
improbableimprobable[imˈprɔbəbl]adj.1.■未必有的, 不大可能发生的; 不像是真的, 难信的; 罕见的2.■【物】不可几的, 非概然的an improbable event不可信的事件It is improbable that she will go.她不见得会走。
继承用法improbability[ɪmˌprɔbəˈbɪlətɪ]n.
词性变化improbablyadv.
adjective
- not likely to be true or to happen
不可能为真的,不可能发生的
this account of events was seen by the jury as most improbable.
这番对事件的报告在陪审团看来是最不可能为真的。
■unexpected and apparently inauthentic
出乎意料的,明显不真实的
the characters have improbable names.
这些角色显然是用假名字。
improbability
( pl. -ies)
noun(pl. -ies)
improbably
adverb
语源
- late 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin improbabilis 'hard to prove', from in- 'not' + probabilis (see probable)
improbable
形容词 improbable:
not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
同义词:unlikely
having a probability too low to inspire belief
同义词:unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely
too improbable to admit of belief
同义词:marvelous, marvellous, tall
improbable
■* Some people find the coincident events in Hardy's novels annoyingly improbable.
*有些人觉得这是一个巧合的事件哈代小说中烦人难以置信。
■The Holmenkollen ski-jumping Board is one of the most famous symbols of Oslo. Norwegians' relationship with skis goes very far Back in time: indeed it is not improbable that even the Vikings traversed Scandinavia on these wooden slats.
Holmenkollen滑雪台是奥斯陆的标志建筑之一。挪威人和滑雪渊源已久,的确,人们当时在这窄木条上穿越斯堪的纳维亚半岛不是不可能的。
■“I guarantee that the town of Smolensk is not in the slightest danger, and it is improbable that it should be threatened in any way.
“我向您保证,斯摩棱斯克城现在还没有面临丝毫的危险,可能受到威胁也令人难于置信。
■The "Guinness Book of World Records" taught me to believe in the accessibility of the improbable.
《吉尼斯世界纪录》使我相信所谓的“不可能”是可以实现的。
■One should always be a little improbable.
一个人应该永远保持一点神秘感。
■a recent and yet more improbable theory
一个新近提出的但更加不切实际的理论
■It all sounded highly improbable.
一切听上去很荒唐。
■Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
一旦你消灭了不可能,不管留下了什么,不论多么不可思议,它都一定是事实。
■Nuclear war is not at all improbable once these countries get desperate.
一旦这些国家感到绝望,核战争不是不可能发生的事。
■A thirty years' war or a hundred years' war is highly improbable, because a long war is very much against the interests of the United States.
三十年战争、百年战争是不会有的,因为长期打下去对美国很不利。
■an improbable idea, event, result
不切实际的想法、 未必会发生的事情、 不太可能有的结果
■The state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability.
不可能不大可能或不可能的状态; 不可能性
■The state of being unlikely or improbable;improbability.
不可能不大可能或不可能的状态;不可能性
■an improbable and unexpected victory.
不可能且意想不到的胜利。
■The quality or condition of being improbable.
不可能性,无必然性不可能的状态或者性质
■Not likely; improbable.
不可能的不太可能的;不可能的
■not likely to be true;improbable
不大可能是真实的;不大可能的
■But this young Chinese Taipei team in Yaqing Sai had been improbable victory over Chinese youth team.
不过这只中华台北青年队却在亚青赛上曾爆冷击败过中国青年队。
■They made the alternations as they sailed on towards a destiny that must have seemed improbable: the two ships happened upon each other off the Brazilian island of Trindade.
两艘船一面改装,一面朝着似乎不可能降临的命运开去:在巴西特林达迪岛附近,彼此碰个正着。
■Responding to calls from local businesses she must maintain their madcap machines, including the 'Penguin Distractor', a 'Far Removed Spinner' and the highly improbable 'Theoretical Hoover'.
为了随时给当地商家服务,她必须要维护那些疯狂的机器,包括:“企鹅分散机”,“遥控纺纱机”, 和异想天开的“理想真空吸尘器”。
■the quality of being improbable.
事情发生的概率为零。
■Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America ’s improbable experiment in democracy.
二百二十一年前,就在仍然屹立在对街的那个厅堂里,一群男人聚集在一起,以简单的文字,发起了美国民主一场大胆的试验。
■What does Aristotle mean when he says that in tragedy a probable impossibility is preferred to an improbable possibility?
亚里斯多德说,悲剧里可能的不可能性是指不可能的可能性,这是什麽意思?
■Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
人们可以相信不可能的事情,人们就是不相信可能不的事情。
■Since 2000, the loser of Game 1 in each of their ALDS has gone on to win the series, making a comeback in this series far from improbable.
从2000年开始,在他们的美联分区系列战中第一场的输家将会变成了整个系列战的赢家,因此要在这个系列战中来个乾坤大逆转并非是件遥不可及的事。
■It is improbable that he will come.
他不见得会来。
■His excuse as to why they were late sounds improbable.
他为他们迟到所找的借口听上去不大可能。
■It is highly improbable that he will arrive tonight.
他今晚准来不了。
■THEY have been improbable soul-mates, the silver-tongued British barrister and the drawling Republican from Texas.
他们是少有的那种惺惺相吸的伙伴。一个是巧舌如簧的英国律师,一个是不谙言辞的德州共和党人。
■They presume government takes steps coping with situation but opinion highly improbable
他们认为政府是按目前形势采取措施的。我们不这样认为。
■" They add, however, that a heritable basis for the signature, although improbable, cannot be ruled out.
他们还说,尽管难以相信,但该特征具有可遗传的基础无法被排除。
■They presume government take step coping with situation but opinion highly improbable.
他们闪为政府是按目前形势采取措施的。我们不这样认为。
■He had arrived at last after the most improbable of careers and one of the most extraordinary feats of self-discipline in American political history.
他在经过了一段预想不到的历程和表现了美国政治史上最不寻常的一次自我约束精神之后终于如愿以偿。
■That he or the other bigwig Russians who have taken refuge in London would jeopardise their asylum for the sake of such risky Machiavellianism seems improbable.
他或其他曾在伦敦寻求庇护的俄罗斯大佬可能会因为如此不择手段的冒险行为危及自己的庇护权,这似乎不大可能发生。
■His cunning was fresh with the day, and his qualms were gone with the night--in which particulars it is not improbable that he had compeers in Fleet Street and the City of London, that fine morning.
他的狡黠已随着白日而更新,他的恐俱已随着黑夜而消逝。 就这个特点而言,在那个晴朗的早晨,舰队街和伦敦城跟他情况相同的人也并非没有。
■His explanation seems highly improbable.
他的解释似乎很不可能。
■He carried on smiling at her, for an improbable proposition she had made, or worse, a professional service she demanded and he could only half-heartedly perform.
他继续朝他微笑着,笑她提了一个不可能实现的建议,更糟的是,笑她竟提出招待,而这他只是半心半意地履行。
■He asked me to compile a list of suspects, however improbable.
他让我列出一个嫌犯名单,把可能不可能的人都列进去。
■a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
以明显的讽刺和离奇的情景为特点的喜剧
■a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
以明显的讽刺和离奇的情景为特点的喜剧。
■To modern minds the idea that men would go to war over, for example, transubstantiation seems improbable.
以现代的思维来看,人们会因为圣体论而走向战争在现今社会是不太可能发生的。
■But Chelsea boss Mourinho insists the big two must still be on their guard to avoid an improbable fightback from either the Gunners or Rafael Benitez's men in the second half of the season.
但是切尔西的穆里尼奥则认为切尔西和曼联必须警惕阿森纳和利物浦在下半个的奋力追赶。
■As a general, if he punishes those that are not wrong, there will be many grouses.A person whose emotions changes unpredictably, is improbable of escaping his demise.
作为将帅乱奖赏无功的人就会使部下离心背向,惩罚无罪的人就会使人们怨声载道,喜怒无常的人,则难以逃脱灭亡的厄运。
■Oregon State now was beginning to roll. They swept through the Super Regionals the next week to punch their improbable return trip to Omaha.
俄勒冈州队开始波动了。他们下一个周横扫了超级地区联队,从此开始了他们重返奥马哈的征途。
■May be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
信仰可以简洁地定义为对不可能之事的发生所持的不逻辑的信念。
■Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
信仰可以被简单定义为相信不太可能发生之事会发生的不合逻辑的信念。
■The state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability .
像洪水、地震这类不大可能发生的事,就不要担心了.
■Or it could mean one more thing-as improbable, but it was far more sinister plot.
再不然就是另一种情况,尽管可能性也不大,但那却是凶狠毒辣得多的阴谋。
■Even in their storied history, none of their teams ever overcame as much and achieved a goal as improbable.
即使在联盟历史上,也没有任何一支球队可以克服这么多的困难然后得到自己的目标。
■Even if perverse consequences of this type look improbable, a junk-food tax may have less impact than its advocates expect.
即使这类型税收出现反常的可能性不太大,垃圾食品征税可能并不能得到其倡导者们想要的结果。