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tenuous单词基本解析：

adj.薄的，细的; 精细的; 稀薄的; 贫乏的
adj.脆弱的, 稀薄的, 贫乏的, 纤细的, 空洞的
adj.薄的，细的；精细的；稀薄的；贫乏的

tenuous变化用词：

副词:tenuously;
副词: tenuously | 名词: tenuousness |

tenuous英英释义：

Adjective

1. having little substance or significance;

"a flimsy excuse"

"slight evidence"

"a tenuous argument"

"a thin plot"

2. having thin consistency;

"a tenuous fluid"

3. very thin in gauge or diameter;

"a tenuous thread"

形容词 tenuous:

having little substance or significance

同义词：flimsy, slight, thin

having thin consistency

very thin in gauge or diametertenuous[ 'tenjuəs ]adj.having little substance or significance

"a tenuous argument"

同义词：flimsyslightthin

having thin consistency

"a tenuous fluid"

very thin in gauge or diameter

"a tenuous thread"

tenuous中文词源：

tenuous 纤细的，易断的，脆弱的 来自拉丁语 tenuis,拉长的，薄的，细的，来自 PIE*ten,展开，词源同 extend,thin,attenuate.引 申词义纤细的，脆弱的等。

tenuous用法和例句：

a tenuous hold on life

命若游丝

His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.

最后证实他与这个组织的关系充其量不过是不即不离罢了。

The cultural and historical links between the many provinces were seen to be very tenuous...

许多省份之间的文化和历史纽带被认为是很脆弱的。

This decision puts the President in a somewhat tenuous position.

这个决定使得总统的位置有些岌岌可危。

The link between anger and injuries has been more tenuous; studies have yielded conflicting results.

愤怒与受伤之间的关系较勉强: 研究得出相互矛盾的结果.

During interphase the chromosomes are too tenuous to be stained.

在间期中,染色体非常纤细,以致不能被染色.

辞典例句

Moreover, statistical research suggests that the link between spending and educational outcomes is tenuous.

而且, 统计研究表明,支出和教育结果之间的关系是相当含糊的.

The Sonia connection had been dismissed throughout the 1960 s as too tenuous to be relied upon.

整个60年代,人们都认为索尼亚这条线索证据不足,难以置信,因而也无人过问.

辞典例句

Wealth and power can be fleeting, family bonds tenuous , status mercurial.

财富权力转眼成空, 家庭关系淡薄如纸, 名望地位飘忽不定.

Your argument is very tenuous, since it relies so much on speculations and hearsay.

因为你的论点很大程度上依赖推测和传言,根本站不住脚.

Fine , elegant and distinguished by an elegant scent of violets and tenuous perfumes of wild berries.

香气优雅而独特, 有优雅的紫罗兰香气和细微的野莓香气.

The difference, if it exists, is extremely tenuous.

这种差别即使存在也是微不足道的.

辞典例句

Karl's relationships with Anthony, Smith and Martin are tenuous at best.

卡尔与安东尼 、 史密斯和马丁的关系非常微妙.

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.

Molecules in the more tenuous upper atmosphere are preferentially scattering blue light.

而上层大气中稀薄的分子更多地是散射蓝光.

Then there's the tenuous rule of law.

法制法规不健全(薄弱).

He gave a tenuous account of his past life.

他对他过去的生活说得很含糊.

辞典例句

The key of processing tenuous hole by plain lathe is the design of apparatus.

用普通车床加工细长孔,夹具和钻具的设计是关键.

In spite of our feelings and immortality, our existence is far tenuous than we might think.

尽管我们感觉自己不可战胜、长生不老, 但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱.

He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.

他对现实认识很肤浅.

《简明英汉词典》

The tenuous position of New Orleans is no secret.

新奥尔良的特殊地理位置并不是秘密.

As the pace of life In the city speeds up, human communication becomes superficial and tenuous.

随着城市生活节奏加快, 人际交往变得浮于表面、敏感脆弱.

The most egregious excessive bonus payouts now include a tenuous link to performance.

最令人震惊的高额奖金支付,现在也开始空洞地与绩效挂钩.

But the Fed's independence is more tenuous than the ECB's.

但是美联储的独立性较欧洲中央银行更模糊.

More minorities maybe living the American dream, but their hold on that dream tenuous.

较多的少数民族也许心怀他们的美国梦, 但是他们实现这个梦想的机会实在渺茫.

The key of processing tenuous hole by plain lathe is the design of clamping apparatus.

摘要用普通车床加工细长孔,夹具和钻具的设计是关键.

Concentration of control of mass media has congealed at a tenuous time in national history.

大众传播媒介的集中控制是在美国历史上一个软弱无力的时期形成的.

辞典例句

In this column , I'll explain why indecency law tenuous ground, from a constitutional perspective.

在这个专栏, 我将解释为什么从宪法角度来说不良法律立基不稳.

a tenuous hold on life

命若游丝

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

tenuous

As mind and brain research grew more sophisticated from the 1950s onward, however, it became apparent to specialists that the evidence Freud had provided for his theories was rather tenuous.

1950年代开始，心智与脑的研究日趋成熟，让专家了解到，佛洛伊德提供验证自己理论的证据相当薄弱。

Dau carefully watches the tenuous peace declared in Sudan during 2005.

2005年，苏丹声称要维护和平，尽管希望渺茫，可道对此却十分关注。

CBASS sequence has higher tissue resolution,low sensitivity to fluid and shorter scanning time, and can accurately display tenuous structures of various tissues . CBASS sequence has foreground of wide clinical application.

:CBASS具有较高的组织分辨率 ,能够更精确地显示各组织结构的微细结构 ,且具有对流体不敏感 ,扫描时间较短等特点 ,具有广阔的临床应用前景

"The linkage to performance is sometimes tenuous," Dunn said.

“和工作表现的连接有时候是纤细的，”盾说。

"I think all of us in this race are all holding our breath collectively one game after another because it is so tenuous," he said.

“我觉得在这场赛跑中的我们都在一场接着一场的比赛中屏住呼吸，因为真的太激烈了，”他说。

The fighting comes after a tenuous week-old U.N. brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces fell apart Sunday.

一周前由联合国出面调解使得叛乱分子和政府停火协议在星期天破裂，叛乱者展开了这场战斗。

One is that election news has temporarily snatched some limelight from the disgruntled farmers who, after eight months of tenuous peace with the administration, have grown rowdy again.

一是选举新闻暂时地夺走了粗暴农民不悦的表情，八个月与管理者的和平处以后，农民的不满情绪又恢复到了从前。

A shaft of light from a street lamp falls past tenuous bamboo railings onto a figure in a glittering white sari.

一束光线从街灯穿过细竹栏杆，照在一个穿著亮白色印度传统长袍的人身上。

The extremely tenuous iron hammer and the extremely strong iron hammer are better.They might be placed together as well.That extremely strong iron hammer(11 arrises) should be from Beijing,right?

一极纤细铁锤与一极粗壮铁锤较好,不妨放置一处,相得宜彰.那个极粗壮铁锤(11棱)应来自北京,然否?

Barisan Nasional's Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir, who yesterday failed to get the High Court here to maintain his tenuous position as the mentri besar (MB) of Perak, filed an appeal early this morning.

上诉庭三司将在今天聆审赞比里的上诉申请。值得一提的是，两名“脱离”公正党的霹州议员，章吉遮冷州议员有奥斯曼与美冷州议员贾玛鲁丁都在场聆听。

Lacking substance or concreteness; tenuous or indefinite.

不可靠的，不具体的；细微的或模糊的

Unfortunately, the prospects for controlling costs are tenuous.

不幸的是，控制支出的前景渺茫。

Since love is the most romantic 、the deepest and the most tenuous poem, we are from here and end from some where unknown.

不过还是有不错的一点，至少陪我在成都好好的走了走。碧增还陪我到川大新校区逛了半天。

preserve tenuous links with one's former friends

与过去的朋友维持不即不离的联系

a single individual's success and the bootstrap effort of the mass of ghetto youth is and remains too tenuous微小 to comport with reality .

个人的成就与广大黑人区青年依靠自己的努力取得成功之间的可比性极其微小，很不现实。

The oft-cited correlation with monetary conditions is tenuous, too.

人们常常提到的上证综指与货币环境之间的关系也不足为信。

"The reason they have to play it safe is because their financial positions are tenuous at best. Their balance sheets are not balanced. They are loaded with liabilities, with no real assets that generate income. "

他们必须安全操作,因为他们的经济地位虚弱:他们的资产负债表从未平衡过,承担着大量债务而且没有能够产生收入的真实资产。

He gave a tenuous account of his past life.

他对他过去的生活说得很含糊。

He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.

他对现实认识很肤浅。

Even as he looked, the light died, then throbbed back into tenuous life.

他的目光落在水晶球上的时候，光亮熄灭了，随即又跳动起来，重拾它纤细的生命活力。

In this paper，an improved method to MC algorithm is proposed for the tenuous vasculature reconstruction in medical images that can keep the connectivity of tissues and structures.

以血管体数据为例，针对医学图像中微细管道结构重建提出一种改进的MC算法，以保持重建后组织结构的连通性。

Iraq's WMD failed to materialise, and the links between al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime proved to be tenuous at best.

伊拉克的WMD是没有付诸实施，然而基地组织与萨达姆政权之间的勾结也被证明是子虚乌有。

Our existence is for more tenuous than we night think .

但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱。

But the Fed's independence is more tenuous than the ECB's.

但是美联储的独立性较欧洲中央银行更模糊。

But, he warns the situation remains very tenuous and he said the need for stability is crucial to get help to those in need.

但是，他警告说，局势仍然非常艰难。他说，局势稳定对帮助贫困民众至关重要。

If broader surveys find many more such tenuous systems, it would argue strongly against ejection, which would surely have torn them apart.

假如更广泛的搜寻能发现为数众多这样微小的系统，将大不利于排斥说，因为该说法会把双棕矮星拆散。

Keywords chart multiplication method;tenuous long compressive bar;critical load;deflection curve;

关键词图乘法;细长压杆;临界载荷;挠曲线;

a tenuous argument

内容贫乏的论据

After decades of war, a tenuous truce has been established between the Sith Empire and the Republic, but events occurring in the game are leading the galaxy back to an all-out war.

几十年的战争后，西斯帝国和共和国达成一项脆弱的停火协议，可游戏中发生的事件将银河系重新带回全面的战争。

Canada's defences in the north remain tenuous.

加拿大北部的防御工作很不理想。

Cassini had passed through a tenuous cloud.

卡西尼号还曾经穿越过稀薄的云层。

Cirrus clouds are often thin and tenuous.

卷云十分稀

Others now have only a tenuous foothold along the river.

另外一些却需依靠恒河而立足。

But he notes that data are elusive, and that the link between law and reality is often tenuous.

同时他也指出，这些数据令人琢磨不透，而且法律和现实之间联系也常是那么虚无缥缈。

a tenuous hold on life

命若游丝

Enceladus may be the source of the material in Saturn's tenuous E ring.

土卫二可能是土星的稀薄的E光环中物质的供给源。

Increasingly troubled by the meaninglessness of his experiences, he gives human motives to the inhumanity of his captors, which helps maintain his tenuous hold on the world.

在强韧的意志力坚持，及好友的相互扶持下，卡维最后终于捱过重重难关，得到美军的救援重获自由。

Working on a comparable timescale, SIM should provide positional information for a subsample of faint stars, thereby probing the most tenuous star streams.

在此同时，SIM应能提供黯淡恒星次级样本的位置资讯，从而侦测最稀薄的恒星流。

The tenuous state of the chromosomes during the period between cell divisions should not suggest that they are inert at this time.

在细胞分裂期间，纤细状态的染色体并不表明此时它们是不活跃的。

In this column, I'll explain why indecency law has always been on extremely tenuous ground, from a constitutional perspective.

在这个专栏，我将解释为什么从宪法角度来说不良法律立基不稳。

During these tenuous times, a last ditch effort by Imperial loyalists employed an imposter as Grand Admiral Thrawn.

在这微妙的时期，帝国顽固派使出了最后一招，他们雇佣了一个骗子冒充索龙元帅。

During interphase the chromosomes are too tenuous to be stained.

在间期中，染色体非常纤细，以致不能被染色。

TYPICAL USE: The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.

地面上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。

Thick MEANING: very thin or slender; not dense; rare TYPICAL USE: The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.

地面上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。小测验:从今天所学中选出最适当的一个单词填入空格

The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.

地面往上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。

The voice is much more tenuous than the words, no copy ,just as ethereal as the falling trace of flowers.

声音是比语言更虚无的东西，它是没有副本的语言。

'You don't know how tenuous your job is,' Ms.Shapiro adds.'You have to have a lot of respect and understanding for what the company is dealing with financially.

夏皮罗还说，你不了解自己的饭碗是多么容易丢掉，你必须充分体谅公司在财务上的困难。

Concentration of control of mass media has congealed at a tenuous time in American history

大众传播媒介的集中控制是在美国历史上一个软弱无力的时期形成的。

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荡的伊拉克人壮胆。

The picture, then, when General Anderson took over the entire battle front, was that of a long tenuous line stretching from Bizerte to Gafsa

安徒生将军受命负责指挥之全线，系从比塞大延至盖夫萨的一条长而脆弱的阵线。

A higher-density star will suffer much less damage than a tenuous one, just as a cannonball is barely marked as it blows a watermelon to shreds.

密度较大的恒星将比松散的恒星承受少得多的损害，就好像炮弹将西瓜轰成碎片时，它本身几乎不会受到一丝损伤。

Spitzer's ascension could weaken their already tenuous hold on the State Senate, their only redoubt of power.

就职仪式本身对他来说反倒是个休息时间。

In spite of our feelings of invincibility and immortality,our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.

尽管我们感觉自己不可战胜,长生不老,但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱.

In spite of our feelings of invincibility and immortality, our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.

尽管我们感觉自己不可战胜、长生不老，但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱。

In spite of our feeling of invincibility and immortablity,our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.

尽管我们感觉自己不可战胜，长生不老。但我们的生命远比想象的脆弱。

And because I am an open lesbian, my stay in China felt tenuous because, unlike America, which has anti-gay laws, China doesn't even recognize that we exist.

并且，因为我是一名公开的女同性恋者，我在中国根本不能立足，因为不像美国拥有反对同性恋的法律，中国甚至不认同我们的存在。

After distilling a number of management studies, Khurana concluded that the CEO has only a “small, contingent or tenuous impact” on financial results.

库拉纳从数个管理研究个案中萃取精华后得到的结论是，执行官对公司的财务状况只有“微小、有条件或薄弱的影响力。”

Political consequences may follow.Mrs Arroyo came to office in a “people-power” revolt in 2001 and her grip on power is tenuous.

当然对政治的影响也会接踵而至，阿罗约是在2001年的人民力量起义中掌权的，但是这个总统的位置却坐的不是那么牢靠。

a tenuous nylon rope

很细的尼龙绳

tenuous time

微妙时刻

tenuous state

微妙的状态

The link between anger and injuries has been more tenuous; studies have yielded conflicting results.

愤怒与受伤之间的关系较勉强：研究得出相互矛盾的结果。

Time and again I have emerged from a course of reading in philosophy with the conviction that the authors were really avoiding specific problems by converting them into tenuous sophistries that have very little real meaning.

我一再退出对哲学的钻研，深信作者们确实是在以将具体问题换成几乎没有实际意义的贫乏诡辩来躲避它们。

We both know how tenuous a relation there is between a man's intentions and the consequences of his acts.

我们两人都知道，在一个人的意图和他的行动后果之间，存在着多么微妙的关系。

But I like to think that I hold on to that single, cold pellet of metal as a reminder of how tenuous life is and how one impulsive act can have immense and rippling consequences.

我只保存了那一颗冰冷的子弹，希望提醒自己生命何其脆弱，一时冲动就可能造成巨大且影响深远的后果。

I kept a tenuous connection with the History School, wrote my two essays a week, and attended an occasional lecture.

我和历史学院保持着若即若离的联系,一周写两篇论文,听听临时讲座。

I kept a tenuous connection with the History School, wrote my two essays a week, and attended an occasional lecture

我和历史学院保持着若即若离的联系，一周写两篇论文，听听临时讲座。

My Caldor-brand sneakers slid with each tenuous step, making me wish I had sprung for the Nikes with the better grip.

我脚上穿着卡德尔运动鞋，小心翼翼地走着，真希望我穿的是耐克鞋，那么我的步履会轻快些。

Perhaps Congressmen behave this way because their links to voters are tenuous.

或许国会议员们之所以这样做是因为他们与投票者之间并无多大的关联。

As an observer said earlier in the week, "It will be impossible to turn back the clock."Although the link could prove tenuous, the observer just may be right.

战前战后的两个“德国故事”都可以成为中国的一面镜子，是否完整地讲述德国故事却能照出两种完全不同的中国影像。

The Sonia connection had been dismissed throughout the 1960s as too tenuous to be relied upon.

整个60年代，人们都认为索尼亚这条线索证据不足，难以置信，因而也无人过问。

The ring itself is tenuous, made up of a thin array of ice and dust particles.

新光环是由非常稀疏的冰粒和尘埃粒子组成的。

The tenuous position of New Orleans is no secret.

新奥尔良的特殊地理位置并不是秘密。

Infinitely long ago it was nearly empty, filled only with a tenuous, widely dispersed, chaotic gas of radiation and matter.

无限久之前的宇宙几乎是空的，只有稀薄、乱、沌的辐射与物质气体充斥其中。

Since love is the most romantic,the deepest and the most tenuous poem, we are from here and end from some where unknown.

既然爱情是心里最美、最沉重和最缥缈的诗篇,就从这里开始,从未知的位置结束。

Since love is the most romantic、 the deepest and the most tenuous poem, we are from here and end from some where unknown.

既然爱情是心里最美、沉重和最缥缈的诗篇，就从这里开始，从未知的位置结束。

By the end of the day, the Allies had achieved a tenuous toehold that would be laboriously expanded over the next weeks and would lead ultimately to the Nazi defeat in the West.

最后,盟国取得了微小的立锥之地,在随后的几个星期,艰难地进一步扩大地盘,最终导致纳粹在西边的失利.

His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.

最后证实他与这个组织的关系充其量不过是不即不离罢了。

tenuous connection

松散的关系

branches tenuous, black when dry, short branches spiny, 5-10 mm, thorns needlelike.

枝纤细，黑色的干燥时，短枝刺，5-10毫米，针状的刺。

用作形容词(adj.)

Our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.
但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱。

Cassini had passed through a tenuous cloud.
卡西尼号还曾经穿越过稀薄的云层。

The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.
地面往上十英里处的气体是非常稀薄的。

He gave a tenuous account of his past life.
他对他过去的生活说得很含糊。

The tenuous state of the chromosomes during the period between cell divisions should not suggest that they are inert at this time.
在细胞分裂期间，纤细状态的染色体并不表明此时它们是不活跃的。

The cross-dating links were often tenuous.
跨年代的联系往往是空洞无力的。

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