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单词 tenuous
释义
tenuous
adjective
uk
/ˈten.ju.əs/us
/ˈten.ju.əs/
A tenuousconnection,idea, orsituationisweakandpossiblydoes notexist:
（关系、想法、形势等）不确定的，不明朗的
Thepolicehave onlyfounda tenuousconnectionbetween the tworobberies.我们只能认定这两桩抢劫案之间可能有某些联系。
literary
thin,weak, andeasilybroken
纤细的；单薄的；脆弱的
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tenuously
(Definition oftenuousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

tenuous| American Dictionary

tenuous
adjective
us
/ˈten·ju·əs/
weak,unimportant, or indoubt:
Theagingdictator’sholdonpoweris tenuous.
(Definition oftenuousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftenuous

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If the rights of property could not be enforced even in the countryside, respect for property located in towns could well have been moretenuous.
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Although this more closely reflects daily family life, it also makes comparative statements somewhattenuous.
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Under an optimality-theoretic account of grammar, such 'deviation' hypotheses are untenable, and the evidence supporting themtenuous.
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Bilinguals have sometimes been described as 'marginal people', because the link with each of their two communities is thought to betenuous.
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Even adult speech that adheres to adult standards may furnish no clues or onlytenuousones.
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Individual chapters are relatively short, and would have benefited from elaboration, and the links between them are rathertenuous.
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Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to atenuousrelation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords.
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Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is atenuousone.
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The assertion that the same mechanism overcomes selfish motives by creating altruistic ones is moretenuous.
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What compels individuals and families to coalesce intotenuousfactional alliances?
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Still, it is interesting to note that the link between local elections in 2004 and presidential elections two years later istenuousat best.
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However, the fact that we could only examine a reduced subset of the data for disyllabic verbs makes this interpretation verytenuous.
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However, in practice, lines of accountability are moretenuous; they may not be linked or worse, may be nonexistent.
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No one would risk so much money on sotenuousan enterprise.
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A realistic view of language change, according to which child language acquisition is key, highlights thetenuousbearing that structure preservation has on the process.
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