| 词汇 | tenuously |
| 释义 | tenuously adverb uk /ˈten.ju.əs.li/ us /ˈten.ju.əs.li/ connected in a way that is not strong or certain: 薄弱地，不牢固地 pay increases that are only tenuously linked to performance只与业绩勉强挂钩的加薪 literary in a way that is weak, and easily broken: 脆弱地，易损地 Patches of snow clung tenuously to the mud and dead grass. 成片的雪松散地覆盖在泥土和枯草上。 See tenuous All these comic bits are rather tenuously connected. The evidence for the link between APS and other diseases may be intriguing, but is at best only tenuously established. The decision was a savage blow for a town clinging rather tenuously to the belief that it is a regional shopping centre. Fish are often hooked so tenuously that just the weight of the fish can pull the hook free as the fish is pulled from the water. Uncertainty amorphous be neither fish nor fowlidiom blurringly blurry circumstantial indeterminacy indeterminate indeterminately insecurely insecurity murky shakily shakiness shallowly slippery spec wavery wifty wishy-washy you never knowidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Fragile and breakable Examples of tenuouslytenuously Buskers are also liminal because playing music defines them, however tenuously, as 'not-beggars'. The chapters are rather disparate, and they hang together only tenuously. It is possible to structure relationships, albeit tenuously, between these phenomena, and to suggest that the resultant association may have a surprising strength. The composers of versus were pushing the boundaries of a liturgy within which, however tenuously, they remained. If all we have to go on is the natural facts, then it seems life, wherever it is, hangs on tenuously. Second, it did so to benefit private entities whose well-being was tenuously linked with that of the public. Like sunspot models, these models have the attractive property that crises are tenuously linked to macroeconomic fundamentals and seem to come out of nowhere. Indeed, among the historically minded, the idea that the apostrophe marks the place of a deleted syllable also holds, though tenuously, even for the possessive form of a few nouns. He also offers a provocative, if tenuously substantiated, global social stratification model by which to identify the actual or potential coalitions of interest that might oppose or favour change. The result is something like a single line, tenuously held together by the semblance of repetition (rarely exact) but vulnerable to disjunctions in pitch and the distance between attacks. Some animal welfare groups launch campaigns to terrorise those connected, sometimes only tenuously, to experiments on live animals. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have at the moment, albeit tenuously, a cessation of attacks on our troops. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that unless that is done we shall find ourselves still holding tenuously on to this authority for months, maybe for years, ahead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those matters are very tenuously related, if at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The prevention of impairment, rehabilitation services, access and integration are all interrelated to some degree, some inextricably and some more tenuously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of tenuously 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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