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单词 untenable
释义
untenable
adjective
formal
uk
/ʌnˈten.ə.bəl/us
/ʌnˈten.ə.bəl/
If atheoryorargumentis untenable, it cannot besupportedordefendedagainstcriticism.
（理论或论点）难以捍卫的，站不住脚的
An untenablesituationcannotcontinueas it is:
（局面）难以继续的，难维持的
If threepeoplein four nolongersupportthegovernment, isn't this an untenablesituation?如果四分之三的人不再支持政府，这样的局面就难以为继了吧？
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(Definition ofuntenablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

untenable| American Dictionary

untenable
adjective
us
/ʌnˈten·ə·bəl/
notableto besupportedordefendedagainstcriticism, or nolongerabletocontinue:
Thepositionof theplayers’unionhasbecomeuntenable.
(Definition ofuntenablefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A successful military campaign may require giving up some tacticallyuntenableterritory.
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The option of maintaining the hospitals for any significant strategic period was simplyuntenable.
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Today, however, such an assertion is whollyuntenable.
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The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, becomeuntenablein practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined.
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The first is the recognition that the failure of foundationalism in philosophy makes any attempt to claim a monopoly on truth, methodology etc.untenable.
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Treating wild living resources as has been done in the past isuntenablefor the long term.
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The unpredictability in science in general entails that the technocratic ideal of the discovery of an optimal solution to social decisions isuntenable.
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The critique of class and other grand concepts was located in a world in which meta-narratives were becoming increasinglyuntenable.
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From the 1910s and 1920s onwards, some of the leading assumptions of salutary neglect appeared to becomeuntenable.
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After all, it makes little sense systematically to falsify accounts if one is unaware that the bank is in anuntenableposition.
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With relatively few cases remaining to be detected, screening in its present form will becomeuntenable.
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The coexistence of new industrial town and remnant agrarian hamlet was thus increasinglyuntenable.
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Many who accept the former point regard the latter as an implausible vestige of anuntenablephilosophy of mind.
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However, the intrinsic improbability of such a solution makes this beliefuntenable!
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First, he has condensed over 2,000 years of history into some 350 pages without one feeling that there are any grave oruntenableomissions.
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