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单词 unreliable
释义
unreliable
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.rɪˈlaɪə.bəl/us
/ˌʌn.rɪˈlaɪə.bəl/
B2
notableto betrustedorbelieved:
不可靠的；不能信赖的
Thebusserviceis unreliable.公车服务不可靠。
unreliableevidence不可信的证据
Opposite
reliable
More examples
  • Several unreliabledealershave beenstruckoffourlistofauthorizedsuppliers.
  • "He's so unreliable!" she saidcrossly.
  • Managers hadcomplainedthat theworkerswerelazyand unreliable.
  • I wouldn'taskAngie to do it, she'scompletelyunreliable.
  • Don't beinfluencedby thefigures, they're abitunreliable.
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  • false
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  • jackleg
  • knavery
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(Definition ofunreliablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

unreliable| American Dictionary

unreliable
adjective
us
/ˌʌn·rɪˈlɑɪ·ə·bəl/
not to betrustedordependedon:
Theircarpenterwastotallyunreliable – he neverfinishedthejob.
(Definition ofunreliablefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunreliable

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Unfortunately, the measurement of cell proliferation has tended to beunreliable.
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As a result, counting every language as a variable would have produced statisticallyunreliableresults.
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Paradoxically, this might be taken to prove the point which she is attacking : that the early modern translations areunreliable.
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Intuitively, the rule r6 states that anunreliablesource is not queried by default.
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Hence, it is anunreliable, inherently error prone process, which reduces the overall confidence in the resulting profiles.
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Due to the changeable outdoor lighting conditions and due to the different view angles the fence size estimation isunreliable.
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Though the machines were oftenunreliable, their low price was very appealing.
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Such evidence is likely to beunreliableand give falsely significant associations between water consumption and disease.
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Seeding blood with extremely low parasite concentrations would be anunreliableprocedure.
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In many countries the existing infrastructure is overloaded and in bad repair, and services areunreliableand often expensive and infiltrated with corruption.
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Consequently, we performed two sets of numerical experiments aimed at determining the structure of the optimal policy for systems with threeunreliableservers.
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Hence, if the high-order products are neglected, then the resulting statistics becomeunreliablevery close to the boundary.
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This study revealed that physicians' survival estimates wereunreliable, especially in the case of patients near death.
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We have no statistics for rural-rural migration before 1953, while the figures for the townships suffer fromunreliableethnic categorization.
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However, of course gossip or other indirect informational exchange is cheap and may beunreliable.
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