英语释义

• incapable of being justified or explained

• (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified

片语

untenable（论据等）站不住脚的；不能维持的；不能租赁的；难以防守的

英汉例句

• his friend the late jack newfield wrote that his career became 「an atonement for one night of indefensible behaviour」; kennedy, newfield said, 「converted persistence into redemption」.

  他的朋友已故的杰克·纽费尔德写道，他的事业因为「某个晚上一次不可原谅的行为而变成了一种赎罪」。 纽费尔德还说，肯尼迪「把坚持不懈转化为改过自新」。

• it is tempting to conclude from the blink test that politics is a shallow business in which profoundly important judgements are made with indefensible immediacy.

  「眨眼测试」让人觉得政治只是个肤浅的行当，其中至关重要的决断竟然建立在选民们经不住推敲的直观感受上。

• that now seems probable, despite mr brown’s initial, indefensible preference for a closed version: with mr bush departed and saddam dead, the case for privacy was always piffling.

  这样的公开调查现在看来很可能要进行了，尽管布朗开始倾向于不公开调查：随着布什卸任和萨拉姆被绞死，隐私这一因素变得微不足道了。

• his explanation for what he called his 「irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable」 behaviour was that he was disorientated after the crash.

  他为他自己称作「非理性，不能辩驳，不可原谅和无法解释的」行为给出的解释是他在撞车后的不知所措。

• israel will not return to the indefensible lines of 1967.

  以色列不会回到1967年的那个不能进行自我防御的边界。

• lawyers for mosley told the court that news of the world was guilty of 「a gross and indefensible intrusion of his private life」.

  莫斯利的律师向法庭陈述说，《世界新闻报》「显而易见且毫无疑问的干涉了莫斯利的私生活。」

• there are greyer areas, in which the rich hide their cash in tax havens and get tax law written to their advantage—witness the indefensible treatment of private-equity profits.

  也存在灰色地带，富人将自己的现金藏在避税天堂，使得税法按照他们有利的方向来写——看看他们对私募基金获得的利润那些处理方法吧，根本站不住脚。

• but while americans would undoubtedly regard such acts as indefensible if some foreign country were doing them to us, hardly any u.s. politicians have questioned these policies.

  但美国人固执的人为，如果这些国家做了针对我们的行动，因此而引起的这类后果是不可避免的，而且几乎没有一位政治家对这些政策提出怀疑。