| 词汇 | doubtful |
| 释义 | doubtful adjective uk /ˈdaʊt.fəl/ us /ˈdaʊt.fəl/ B2 If you are doubtful about something, you are uncertain about it: 怀疑的，有疑虑的；不能确定的 doubtful aboutThe teacher is doubtful about having parents working as classroom assistants.这位老师对由家长担任课堂助教一事拿不定主意。 B2 If a situation is doubtful, it is unlikely to happen or to be successful: 不大可能的 it is doubtful whether It is doubtful whether they ever reached the summit before they died. it is doubtful if It is doubtful if the accident could have been prevented. it is doubtful that It was doubtful that the money would ever be found again.再找到那些钱不太可能了。 It is doubtful whether the government will ever agree to their demands. We were doubtful about the product's usefulness from the start.从一开始我们就对这个产品的效用抱有疑问。 It now looks doubtful that the building work will be completed on time. I'm a bit doubtful about whether to take on the job, as the hours are pretty unsociable. Many of us are doubtful about the value of these new educational strategies. Doubt & ambivalence ambivalence ambivalent ambivalently askance be in two mindsidiom have a foot in both campsidiom haw hem hem and hawidiom hum and hawidiom nonconcern nonplussed quandary rudderless shades of greyidiom warily wary waver wavering waveringly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Uncertainty Related worddoubtfully doubtful | American Dictionarydoubtful adjective us/ˈdɑʊt·fəl/ uncertain or unlikely: [ + (that) clause ]It was doubtful (that) the money would ever be found. She gave me a long, doubtful look (= look full of doubt) and told me to wait. doubtful | Business Englishdoubtful adjective ACCOUNTINGuk /ˈdaʊtfəl/us used to describe debts or accounts that are unlikely to be paid: The Company has established an allowance for doubtful accounts based on the credit risk of specific customers and historical trends. See also doubtful debt Examples of doubtfuldoubtful Many are doubtful that increased direct funding would generate sufficient incentives or be managed efficiently enough. However, this approach will not do as it stands, for it is based on a number of doubtful presuppositions. The reason for that preoccupation with doubtful intercessories looks likely to have sprung from the chief end of the whole structure of worship. We consider it doubtful that the observed trends are strongly biased by inaccurate cancer registry or population data. The second doubtful case was that of a man accused of driving while uninsured. Do they make the overall fictionality of a world doubtful? Blending unconsciously transcendence and immanence, as they do, is a very doubtful chimaera. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the original intention is achieved at all. If all were freely used, it is doubtful that any metrical structure would be perceptible at all. Given the doubtful acceptability of (12b), it could be argued that, at least functionally, such pairs are not on the same level as- above. Laurence's youth and doubtful vocation offered the community an opportunity to challenge dynastic control. All similar experience shows that it is doubtful. Whatever the explanation, it is doubtful that fertility decline can help explain the decline of the multigenerational family. In particular, his statement that it showed priming effects from a rejected analysis is doubtful. Are they certain, or are they among the doubtfuls? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of doubtful 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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