tenuous
['tenjuəs]
adj.脆弱的, 稀薄的, 贫乏的, 纤细的, 空洞的
例句与用法:
Sheer, light, delicate, or tenuous.
轻而薄的; 薄弱的; 虚无漂缈的
词形变化:
副词: tenuously | 名词: tenuousness |
a.
1. 纤细的
2. 稀薄的
3. 贫乏的; 平淡的
4. 脆弱的, 无力的
tenuous['tenjuəs]adj.1.■薄的;细的;纤细的;单薄的2.■不重要的3.■(空气等)稀薄的4.■精细的;微细的5.■根据不足的,(证据)不充分的;脆弱的6.■不清楚的;模棱两可的近义词thin
tenuoustenuous[ˈtenjuəs]adj.1.■[罕](纤) 细的, (单)薄的; 脆弱的2.■稀薄的3.■微妙的, 精细的, 烦琐的4.■贫乏的; 空洞无力的tenuous wires细电线the tenuous air at a great height高空的稀薄空气a tenuous argument内容贫乏的论据
继承用法tenuouslyadv.tenuousnessn.
adjective
- very weak or slight
微弱的;脆弱的,不坚固的
the tenuous link between interest rates and investment.
利率与投资之间可有可无的联系。
■very slender or fine; insubstantial
细的,精细的;微弱的
a tenuous cloud.
淡淡的云彩。
tenuously
adverb
tenuousness
noun
语源
- late 16th cent.: formed irregularly from Latin tenuis 'thin' + -ous
tenuous
形容词 tenuous:
having little substance or significance
having thin consistency
very thin in gauge or diameter
tenuous
■As mind and brain research grew more sophisticated from the 1950s onward, however, it became apparent to specialists that the evidence Freud had provided for his theories was rather tenuous.
1950年代开始,心智与脑的研究日趋成熟,让专家了解到,佛洛伊德提供验证自己理论的证据相当薄弱。
■Dau carefully watches the tenuous peace declared in Sudan during 2005.
2005年,苏丹声称要维护和平,尽管希望渺茫,可道对此却十分关注。
■CBASS sequence has higher tissue resolution,low sensitivity to fluid and shorter scanning time, and can accurately display tenuous structures of various tissues . CBASS sequence has foreground of wide clinical application.
:CBASS具有较高的组织分辨率 ,能够更精确地显示各组织结构的微细结构 ,且具有对流体不敏感 ,扫描时间较短等特点 ,具有广阔的临床应用前景
■"The linkage to performance is sometimes tenuous," Dunn said.
“和工作表现的连接有时候是纤细的,”盾说。
■"I think all of us in this race are all holding our breath collectively one game after another because it is so tenuous," he said.
“我觉得在这场赛跑中的我们都在一场接着一场的比赛中屏住呼吸,因为真的太激烈了,”他说。
■The fighting comes after a tenuous week-old U.N. brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces fell apart Sunday.
一周前由联合国出面调解使得叛乱分子和政府停火协议在星期天破裂,叛乱者展开了这场战斗。
■One is that election news has temporarily snatched some limelight from the disgruntled farmers who, after eight months of tenuous peace with the administration, have grown rowdy again.
一是选举新闻暂时地夺走了粗暴农民不悦的表情,八个月与管理者的和平处以后,农民的不满情绪又恢复到了从前。
■A shaft of light from a street lamp falls past tenuous bamboo railings onto a figure in a glittering white sari.
一束光线从街灯穿过细竹栏杆,照在一个穿著亮白色印度传统长袍的人身上。
■The extremely tenuous iron hammer and the extremely strong iron hammer are better.They might be placed together as well.That extremely strong iron hammer(11 arrises) should be from Beijing,right?
一极纤细铁锤与一极粗壮铁锤较好,不妨放置一处,相得宜彰.那个极粗壮铁锤(11棱)应来自北京,然否?
■Barisan Nasional's Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir, who yesterday failed to get the High Court here to maintain his tenuous position as the mentri besar (MB) of Perak, filed an appeal early this morning.
上诉庭三司将在今天聆审赞比里的上诉申请。值得一提的是,两名“脱离”公正党的霹州议员,章吉遮冷州议员有奥斯曼与美冷州议员贾玛鲁丁都在场聆听。
■Lacking substance or concreteness; tenuous or indefinite.
不可靠的,不具体的;细微的或模糊的
■Unfortunately, the prospects for controlling costs are tenuous.
不幸的是,控制支出的前景渺茫。
■Since love is the most romantic 、the deepest and the most tenuous poem, we are from here and end from some where unknown.
不过还是有不错的一点,至少陪我在成都好好的走了走。碧增还陪我到川大新校区逛了半天。
■preserve tenuous links with one's former friends
与过去的朋友维持不即不离的联系
■a single individual's success and the bootstrap effort of the mass of ghetto youth is and remains too tenuous微小 to comport with reality .
个人的成就与广大黑人区青年依靠自己的努力取得成功之间的可比性极其微小,很不现实。
■The oft-cited correlation with monetary conditions is tenuous, too.
人们常常提到的上证综指与货币环境之间的关系也不足为信。
■"The reason they have to play it safe is because their financial positions are tenuous at best. Their balance sheets are not balanced. They are loaded with liabilities, with no real assets that generate income. "
他们必须安全操作,因为他们的经济地位虚弱:他们的资产负债表从未平衡过,承担着大量债务而且没有能够产生收入的真实资产。
■He gave a tenuous account of his past life.
他对他过去的生活说得很含糊。
■He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.
他对现实认识很肤浅。
■Even as he looked, the light died, then throbbed back into tenuous life.
他的目光落在水晶球上的时候,光亮熄灭了,随即又跳动起来,重拾它纤细的生命活力。
■In this paper,an improved method to MC algorithm is proposed for the tenuous vasculature reconstruction in medical images that can keep the connectivity of tissues and structures.
以血管体数据为例,针对医学图像中微细管道结构重建提出一种改进的MC算法,以保持重建后组织结构的连通性。
■Iraq's WMD failed to materialise, and the links between al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime proved to be tenuous at best.
伊拉克的WMD是没有付诸实施,然而基地组织与萨达姆政权之间的勾结也被证明是子虚乌有。
■Our existence is for more tenuous than we night think .
但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱。
■But the Fed's independence is more tenuous than the ECB's.
但是美联储的独立性较欧洲中央银行更模糊。
■But, he warns the situation remains very tenuous and he said the need for stability is crucial to get help to those in need.
但是,他警告说,局势仍然非常艰难。他说,局势稳定对帮助贫困民众至关重要。
■If broader surveys find many more such tenuous systems, it would argue strongly against ejection, which would surely have torn them apart.
假如更广泛的搜寻能发现为数众多这样微小的系统,将大不利于排斥说,因为该说法会把双棕矮星拆散。
■Keywords chart multiplication method;tenuous long compressive bar;critical load;deflection curve;
关键词图乘法;细长压杆;临界载荷;挠曲线;
■a tenuous argument
内容贫乏的论据
■After decades of war, a tenuous truce has been established between the Sith Empire and the Republic, but events occurring in the game are leading the galaxy back to an all-out war.
几十年的战争后,西斯帝国和共和国达成一项脆弱的停火协议,可游戏中发生的事件将银河系重新带回全面的战争。
■Canada's defences in the north remain tenuous.
加拿大北部的防御工作很不理想。
■Cassini had passed through a tenuous cloud.
卡西尼号还曾经穿越过稀薄的云层。
■Cirrus clouds are often thin and tenuous.
卷云十分稀
■Others now have only a tenuous foothold along the river.
另外一些却需依靠恒河而立足。
■But he notes that data are elusive, and that the link between law and reality is often tenuous.
同时他也指出,这些数据令人琢磨不透,而且法律和现实之间联系也常是那么虚无缥缈。
■a tenuous hold on life
命若游丝
■Enceladus may be the source of the material in Saturn's tenuous E ring.
土卫二可能是土星的稀薄的E光环中物质的供给源。
■Increasingly troubled by the meaninglessness of his experiences, he gives human motives to the inhumanity of his captors, which helps maintain his tenuous hold on the world.
在强韧的意志力坚持,及好友的相互扶持下,卡维最后终于捱过重重难关,得到美军的救援重获自由。
■Working on a comparable timescale, SIM should provide positional information for a subsample of faint stars, thereby probing the most tenuous star streams.
在此同时,SIM应能提供黯淡恒星次级样本的位置资讯,从而侦测最稀薄的恒星流。
■The tenuous state of the chromosomes during the period between cell divisions should not suggest that they are inert at this time.
在细胞分裂期间,纤细状态的染色体并不表明此时它们是不活跃的。
■In this column, I'll explain why indecency law has always been on extremely tenuous ground, from a constitutional perspective.
在这个专栏,我将解释为什么从宪法角度来说不良法律立基不稳。
■During these tenuous times, a last ditch effort by Imperial loyalists employed an imposter as Grand Admiral Thrawn.
在这微妙的时期,帝国顽固派使出了最后一招,他们雇佣了一个骗子冒充索龙元帅。
■During interphase the chromosomes are too tenuous to be stained.
在间期中,染色体非常纤细,以致不能被染色。
■TYPICAL USE: The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.
地面上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。
■Thick MEANING: very thin or slender; not dense; rare TYPICAL USE: The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.
地面上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。小测验:从今天所学中选出最适当的一个单词填入空格
■The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.
地面往上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。
■The voice is much more tenuous than the words, no copy ,just as ethereal as the falling trace of flowers.
声音是比语言更虚无的东西,它是没有副本的语言。
■'You don't know how tenuous your job is,' Ms.Shapiro adds.'You have to have a lot of respect and understanding for what the company is dealing with financially.
夏皮罗还说,你不了解自己的饭碗是多么容易丢掉,你必须充分体谅公司在财务上的困难。
■Concentration of control of mass media has congealed at a tenuous time in American history
大众传播媒介的集中控制是在美国历史上一个软弱无力的时期形成的。
■If we fail to make that case effectively, we will weaken already tenuous democratic forces and embolden those in Iraq who seek to foment chaos and instability.
如果我们不能有效地做到这点,我们将削弱本来就已软弱的民主力量,并给那些企图制造混乱和动荡的伊拉克人壮胆。
■The picture, then, when General Anderson took over the entire battle front, was that of a long tenuous line stretching from Bizerte to Gafsa
安徒生将军受命负责指挥之全线,系从比塞大延至盖夫萨的一条长而脆弱的阵线。