| 词汇 | tenable |
| 释义 | tenable adjective formaluk /ˈten.ə.bəl/ us /ˈten.ə.bəl/ (of an opinion or position) able to be defended successfully or held for a particular period of time: （观点）站得住脚的；（职位）可保持一段时间的 His theory is no longer tenable in the light of the recent discoveries.根据最新的发现，他的理论已经站不住脚了。 The fellowship is tenable for(= lasts for) three years.这个研究员职位任期为3年。 Suitable and acceptable able acceptability acceptable acceptably accepted convenience conveniently correctly correctness decent decently felicity just what the doctor orderedidiom legitimate practical properly quality re-eligibility re-eligible relevance tenable | Business Englishtenable adjective uk /ˈtenəbl/us reasonable, or possible to achieve or defend: The Board has decided that his position as chairman is no longer tenable. a tenable approach/solution/point of view HR a job that is tenable for a particular period of time, or from a particular date, can be held for that period of time or from that date: tenable from sthApplications are invited for the chair of Governors, tenable from 1 September 2011. Examples of tenabletenable Some of the principal roles of taxonomies are to facilitate human understanding, impart structure on an ontology and promote tenable integration. This assumes that the relative frequencies of these most common words remain constant over development, which may or may not be a tenable assumption. Such a hypothesis is, however, not tenable when considering predominantly subtidal organisms. I think we did the best we could under difficult circumstances to achieve a tenable, if not perfect, consensus. This possibility becomes less tenable, however, when other experimental evidence is brought to bear. However, these hypotheses do not seem to be empirically tenable (yet). Considerable literature shows that only under extremely restrictive conditions is the latter position tenable. I would claim that none of the movements we have tried to describe were academically tenable except as experiments. However, the research makes it clear that this strong position is no longer tenable. It is difficult at present to find a tenable alternative to some sort of storage of information to explain these ventral processes. I believe the premise of the book is not simply unsatisfying, but no longer tenable. In effect, one then has several interfaces that just happen to be written in one file - a tenable situation. Most of the anti's now admit that the case for absolute abolition is no longer tenable. To think that the ontogenic development of language learning can be a window on the evolution of language as such is not a tenable option. The same view is not seriously tenable in today's smaller world. 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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