| 词汇 | untenable |
| 释义 | untenable adjective formaluk /ʌnˈten.ə.bəl/ us /ʌnˈten.ə.bəl/ If a theory or argument is untenable, it cannot be supported or defended against criticism.（理论或论点）难以捍卫的，站不住脚的 An untenable situation cannot continue as it is: （局面）难以继续的，难维持的 If three people in four no longer support the government, isn't this an untenable situation?如果四分之三的人不再支持政府，这样的局面就难以为继了吧？ Wrong aberrant aberrantly abnormal amiss anomalous fallaciousness false false negative false positive falsely iniquity invalidly irregularly liberal liberally quarrel wrongheaded wrongheadedly wrongly X, x You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Impossible and improbable untenable | American Dictionaryuntenable adjective us/ʌnˈten·ə·bəl/ not able to be supported or defended against criticism, or no longer able to continue: The position of the players’ union has become untenable. Examples of untenableuntenable First, he has condensed over 2,000 years of history into some 350 pages without one feeling that there are any grave or untenable omissions. Since the notion of current-locus-ofupdate has been argued to be problematic for a number of reasons, an account of ' aboutness ' in these terms seems untenable. In that context, the present fragmentation of proprietary rights to genes would simply be untenable. Under an optimality-theoretic account of grammar, such 'deviation' hypotheses are untenable, and the evidence supporting them tenuous. In this instance, the cemetery's attorneys almost welcomed defeat as a way to end their ' ' untenable legal position. Without recourse to social factors, such a hypothesis solely based on structural facts must of necessity remain untenable. The argument of falsification has been found to be untenable, since the few instances on which the argument is predicated merely involve irregularities. Research over the last two decades has rendered such a viewpoint increasingly untenable. When new information points to simpler, more likely solutions, they have been reluctant to abandon untenable positions. On these grounds, linguistic representational nativism seems untenable. However, the suggestion that the only di#erences are in terminology and exhaustiveness is at best superficial, and in fact untenable. Ultimately, this paradox proved to be intellectually untenable. However, the principle is actually solidly grounded epistemologically because the alternative is untenable. We argue here that these discontinuities are untenable. Unfortunately, that theory has been untenable for more than fifty years. See all examples of untenable 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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