英语释义

• having little substance or significance;

  "a flimsy excuse"

  "slight evidence"

  "a tenuous argument"

  "a thin plot"

• having thin consistency;

  "a tenuous fluid"

• very thin in gauge or diameter;

  "a tenuous thread"

片语

Branches Tenuous枝纤细

thin细小部分

tenuous plasma稀薄等离子体

rare杰出的；极度的；非常好的

tenuous wires细电线

tenuous body纤体

subtle微妙的；精细的；敏感的；狡猾的；稀薄的

tenuous s空洞的

tenuous argument没有说服力的论据

tenuous gossamer纤细的游丝

tenuous detail纤小

tenuous thread细线

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

英汉例句

• in other words, the intersection between polite professionalism and honest conversation can be a tenuous crossroads.

  在换句话说，礼貌的方式和诚实的交谈之间是一个微妙的十字路口。

• and because obesity is determined by lack of exercise as well as calorie intake, its ultimate relationship with health costs is more tenuous than that of, say, smoking.

  而且肥胖是由缺乏锻炼和摄入高卡路里共同导致的，肥胖和医疗成本最终的关系不如抽烟那么紧密。

• compare this to, say, mars, which once had an atmosphere but lost nearly all of it, in part because of the tenuous hold its low gravity had on the gas that surrounded the planet.

  相对于木星来说，火星曾经有过一个大气层，但后来几乎全部失去了。部分原因是它对于包围行星的气体施加的重力太低。

• as the supernova blast wave slams into tenuous clouds of interstellar gas, the resulting collision heats and compresses the gas, causing it to glow.

  当高速行进的超新星沖击波与稀薄的星际气体相撞时，气体受到压缩和加热，因此而发光。

• some of this legislation’s tenuous support has depended on its embrace of energy policies that many republicans, but few environmentalists, favour: offshore drilling and nuclear power.

  立法机构的脆弱支持决定很多共和党（极少数的环保注意者）所偏爱的政策被立法机构接受（这项立法要得到一些脆弱的支持，得依赖于其条款要拥护多数共和党人支持的能源政策，但鲜有环保主义人士认可这些能源政策）：近海石油开采和核能开发。

• the u.k. bailout plans are expected to change as details are worked out, but if arguments balloon they could threaten the tenuous confidence that the bailout aims to foster.

  预计英国的救助计划将随着细节的不断确定而发生调整，不过如果争议扩大的话，可能会威胁到救助计划意在培养的微弱信心。

• you don't have to awkwardly walk up to anyone, because all the pretty girls and cool guys awkwardly walk up to you and tell you that their tenuous connection to you makes them proud.

  你不用尴尬地走到任何人面前去搭讪，因为所有的漂亮女孩和酷家伙都会尴尬地走上前来跟你搭讪，并告诉你，他们如何因为七拐八绕地跟你扯上关系而感到骄傲。

• in the key u.s. market, a recovery in demand remains tenuous with unemployment still rising and consumer sentiment down sharply.

  在重要的美国市场，失业率仍在上升，消费者信心急剧萎缩，因此需求的反弹仍然不堪一击。

• if we fail to make that case effectively, we will weaken already tenuous democratic forces and embolden those in iraq who seek to foment chaos and instability.

  如果我们不能有效地做到这点，我们将削弱本来就已软弱的民主力量，并给那些企图制造混乱和动蕩的伊拉克人壮胆。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas ( nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the hourglass.

  图中精美而多彩的环状炽热气体云（红色为氮，绿色为氢，氧为蓝色）描绘出了纤细的沙漏形状。

• we live in an atomized society of single dwellings, lonely car commutes to work, and tenuous social connections we have towork harder and harder to maintain.

  我们生活在一个原子化的社会，独自居住，独自驾车通勤，种种我们需要努力去维持的微弱的社会关系。

• the solar wind is a high-speed but extremely tenuous stream of electrically charged gases—ionized hydrogen and helium—that flow outward from the sun.

  太阳风是一种高速但非常稀薄的从太阳向外流动的带电气体离子氢、氦流。

• if there was a kind of team attitude going on like what men have, the only thing stopping women from taking over would be the tenuous grasp that old white men have on power right now.

  如果说有一种像男人有什么之类的老旧集体观念继续存在的话，唯一可以组织女人控制世界东西就是传统的白种男人立刻控制世界，而这是异想天开。

• 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。

• two other councils where no party currently has overall control, cumbria and warwickshire, are in his sights too, as are two counties in the south-west where the lib dems now have a tenuous hold.

  还有两个现在还没有政党取得全面控制的地方，坎布里亚郡和华威郡，也被他盯上了，如同西南部自由民主党力量薄弱的两个郡一样。

• robert fiske had been removed as the whitewater independent counsel on the tenuous claim that his appointment by janet reno created the appearance of a conflict of interest.

  白水事件独立检察官罗伯特·菲斯克已被免职，依据的是一个站不住脚的说法：珍妮特·雷诺对他的任命造成了利益沖突。

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