tenuous
adj. 纤细的；稀薄的；贫乏的
adj.
薄的，细的；精细的；稀薄的；贫乏的
英英释义
tenuous[ 'tenjuəs ]
adj.
having little substance or significance
"a tenuous argument"
同义词：flimsyslightthin
having thin consistency
"a tenuous fluid"
very thin in gauge or diameter
"a tenuous thread"
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
Our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.
但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱。
Cassini had passed through a tenuous cloud.
卡西尼号还曾经穿越过稀薄的云层。
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。
He gave a tenuous account of his past life.
他对他过去的生活说得很含糊。
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。
The cross-dating links were often tenuous.
跨年代的联系往往是空洞无力的。
权威例句
Tenuous structures from disorderly growth processesA Tenuous Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon Callisto
Aerogels — highly tenuous solids with fascinating properties
Aerogels-highly tenuous solids with fascinating properties. J Non-Cryst Solids 100: 169-173
Self-focusing and Raman scattering of laser pulses in tenuous plasmas
An introduction to the theory of diffusive shock acceleration of energetic particles in tenuous plasmas
Elon Musk's brother should be booted from Tesla's board as the company's looking 'more tenuous than ever'
Pedersen, A. et al. Electron density estimations derived from spacecraft potential measurements on Cluster in tenuous plasma regions...
Erratum: Electron density estimations derived from spacecraft potential measurements on Cluster in tenuous plasma regions (Journal o...
Reply [to “Some characteristics of rapidly flowing magnetotail plasmas: Further Comments on ‘On hot tenuous plasmas, fireballs, an...
tenuous
tenuous: [16] Tenuous comes from the same ultimate ancestor as thin. It is an alteration of an earlier and now defunct tenuious, which was adapted from Latin tenuis ‘thin’. And this went back to the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch’, a variant of which produced English thin.=> tend, thin
tenuous (adj.)
1590s, "thin, unsubstantial," irregularly formed from Latin tenuis "thin, drawn out, meager, slim, slender," figuratively "trifling, insignificant, poor, low in rank," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tanuh "thin," literally "stretched out;" see tenet) + -ous. The correct form with respect to the Latin is tenuious. The figurative sense of "having slight importance, not substantial" is found from 1817 in English. Related: Tenuously; tenuousness.
1. He did not speculate on the future of his tenuous career.
他没有考虑到自己不稳定的职业前景。
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2. His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.
最后证实他与这个组织的关系充其量不过是不即不离罢了。
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3. The picture was that of a long tenuous line stretching from bizerte to gafsa.
图片上是从比塞大延至盖夫萨的一条长而脆弱的阵线。
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4. These are just casual, tenuous electronic pings.
这些只是一些随意的、空洞的电子接触而已。
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5. This is where hopes of an Asia-led rebound are most tenuous.
这就是为何亚洲所带领的复苏希望是如此脆弱了.
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6. Unfortunately, the prospects for controlling costs are tenuous.
不幸的是，控制支出的前景渺茫。
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7. The gloom about jobs is overdone, but the outlook remains tenuous
关于就业有些过于悲观，但也难言乐观
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8. Now, the most tenuous of news reports has ramped the talk up again.
目前这则最飘渺的新闻报道再一次被重提。
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9. The balance is tenuous, but right now it's working to his advantage.
这平衡是微妙的，但它现在对他产生了有利的一面。
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10. This weak link can be even more tenuous than might first be apparent.
这个脆弱的链接可能会比最初更弱。
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11. The encryption used by secure websites relies on tenuous relationships.
安全网站使用的加密依赖脆弱的关系。
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12. Perhaps Congressmen behave this way because their links to voters are tenuous.
或许国会议员们之所以这样做是因为他们与投票者之间并无多大的关联。
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13. Mitra admits that the analogies between bird culture and human culture are tenuous.
Mitra承认将鸟类文化与人类文化进行类比有点牵强。
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14. Even at its most tenuous and hollowed out, he finds some shape, a sense of cyclic pattern.
甚至在它最纤细也被耗尽的时刻，他看到生命的老去所展现出的轮回之义。
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15. For this there is only tenuous empirical support when interest rates are close to zero.
对于这一点，当利率接近零时，只有微弱的经验方面的支持。
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16. In this method, the relationship of risk management and the key project measurements is tenuous.
在此方法中，风险管理和关键项目测量的关系是纤细的。
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17. If our self respect is based on the praise of others then our self respect will be very tenuous.
如果我们的自我尊重建立在他人的表扬之上，那么这种自我尊重将是非常脆弱的。
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18. If Mr Lewis's grip on his job looks tenuous, his bank's grip on Merrill's talent is equally shaky.
如果刘易斯先生对自己的工作都看起来没什么办法，那么他的银行能否管理好美林的人才也同样令人质疑。
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19. In only a tenuous sense, then, is E. coli a species in the way that, say humans or mice are species.
只有在一个很狭义的范围内，大肠杆菌才能像人类或老鼠那样称为一个物种。
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20. For example, the relationship between happiness and income is complicated, and after a point, tenuous.
例如，幸福和收入的关系比较复杂，但是超过某一个点之后，它们的关联就很薄弱了。
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21. In tenuous times, your supervisor is one of the few people who may be able to shield you from a layoff.
在经济危机时期，你的上司可能是能够保护你不被裁员的人之一。
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22. Time, however, made Reich's grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939.
不管怎样，时间使得赖希对现实的感觉更加细腻，特别是他1939年逃亡到美国之后。
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23. Time, however, made Reich’s grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939.
时间证明，赖希的理论越来越偏离实际，尤其是1939年他逃到美国之后。
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24. Dugongs are now legally protected throughout their range, but their populations are still in a tenuous state.
儒艮目前在整个范围内受到法律的保护，但其数量仍然处于贫乏的状态中。
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25. Unfortunately, the relationship between natural justice and the law is sometimes tenuous, as it is in this case.
不幸的是，自然正义与法律的关系有时很脆弱，正如此事。
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26. Outages like this shake users' already tenuous faith in the reliability of services that hold their most important data files.
这类的停机事件，让用户对是否可以将重要文件放在其服务中的信心产生了动摇。
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27. Outages like this shake users' already tenuous faith in the reliability of services that hold their most important data files.
这类的停机事件，让用户对是否可以将重要文件放在其服务中的信心产生了动摇。
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