| 词汇 | flimsy |
| 释义 | flimsy adjective uk /ˈflɪm.zi/ us /ˈflɪm.zi/ flimsyadjective (THIN)very thin, or easily broken or destroyed: 很薄的；易破的；易损坏的 You won't be warm enough in that flimsy dress.你穿那么薄的衣服不够暖和。 We spent the night in a flimsy wooden hut.我们在一个不太坚固的小木屋里过了一夜。 a flimsy cardboard box薄纸板箱 breaking easily weakIf trees do not get enough water they become weak. strongSteel is a very strong material. flimsyThere was only a flimsy inflatable raft between him and the raging river ricketyWe climbed up the rickety wooden stairs. fragileSome objects are too fragile to be moved between the museums. delicateShe carefully wrapped up the delicate glass ornaments. Fragile and breakable breakable brittle cobwebby crumbly delicacy delicate delicate operation dodgy fissile flaky flimsily flimsiness fragile fragility frail friable ramshackle rickety tenuous tenuously flimsyadjective (DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE)A flimsy argument, excuse, etc. is weak and difficult to believe: （论点、借口等）不足信的，站不住脚的 flimsy excuseWhen I asked him why he was late, he gave me some flimsy excuse about having car trouble.我问他为什么迟到时，他给了个很不足信的借口，说车出毛病了。 Not believable belief by no stretch (of the imagination)idiom fanciful fancifully far-fetched implausibility implausible implausibly incredible joke kid stretch too good to be trueidiom unbelievable unbelievably unconvincing unplausible wash weak you're joking!idiom Related wordsflimsily flimsiness flimsy | American Dictionaryflimsy adjective us/ˈflɪm·zi/ (of material) very thin, or (of a structure or object) badly made and weak, and therefore easily broken or destroyed: a flimsy dress a flimsy building Flimsy also means weak and not persuasive: They convicted the defendant on very flimsy evidence. Examples of flimsyflimsy The logic governing clinical trials of drugs emerged only in the twentieth century, after eons of the use of medications on only the flimsiest empirical basis. We all know that we keep carbon copies of our letters, but carbons are not provided nor the flimsies to go with them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In no time, she is wearing the flimsiest of clothes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the kanun, although punishments are less severe, a person could be convicted and punished on very flimsy circumstantial grounds. When all seemed impossible and even solutions to the flimsiest problems seemed like an uphill task, something happened suddenly, that changed all! From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If there is money to be made, barriers to cosmetic neurology appear flimsy at best. The second model was an experimental plane of the flimsiest construction for use in the calmest of seas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He wanted a rocking horse, because the clothes one was too flimsy. The ' ' commonsense ' ' of indifference turns out to be a rather flimsy foundation on which to rest powerful mathematics. At most, the retributive argument for it, which would bring enhanced sentences within the usual limiting justification for detention, is controversial and flimsy. The larvae attacked, for the most part, did not respin their cocoons after collection ; those which did spin a cocoon made only a thin, flimsy one. In both gender and science studies, naturalization is ideology at full strength, hardening the flimsy conventions of culture into the immutable, inevitable, and indifferent dictates of nature. The measures proposed here are somewhat flimsy, but they are nonetheless necessary and imperative. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Now he has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a symbolic act on the basis of flimsy arguments. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He had scarcely received a just trial and had been sentenced on flimsy grounds. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of flimsy These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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