| 词汇 | doubting |
| 释义 | doubting present participle ofdoubt doubt verb[ T ] uk /daʊt/ us /daʊt/ B2 to not feel certain or confident about something or to think that something is not probable: 怀疑;不确定，不肯定 I doubt whether/if I can finish the work on time.我怀疑自己能否按时完成这项工作。 [ + that ]They had begun to doubt that it could be done.他们开始怀疑能否做到。 He may come back tomorrow with the money, but I very much doubt it.也许明天他会把钱带回来，但我对此深表怀疑。 I don't doubt his abilities.我并不怀疑他的能力。 doubt someone/doubt someone's word C1 to not trust someone or believe what they say: 不相信，不信任，怀疑（某人／某人的话） He's never lied to me before, so I have no reason to doubt his word.以前他从未对我说过谎，因此我没有理由怀疑他说的话。 I doubt whether it'll work.我怀疑这是否能起作用。 He gave his word that he would marry her and she had no cause to doubt him.他保证会与她结婚，她没有理由怀疑他。 He'd been behaving so strangely that they began to doubt his sanity. I only caught a fleeting glimpse of the driver of the getaway car, but I doubt I would recognize her if I saw her again. No one doubted that the president was a man of the highest integrity.没有人怀疑总裁是个光明磊落的人。 Suspecting & questioning ask ask questions of someone/somethingidiom call into questionidiom challenge challengingly cynic cynical cynical about someone/something cynically cynicism doubt reserve sceptical scepticism skeptic skeptical skeptically suspected suspiciously unchallengeable GrammarI doubt if, I don’t know whether We use if or whether to introduce clauses after verbs of doubting: … Examples of doubtingdoubting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In the end, we will raise grounds for doubting that "causal" is an unambiguously perspicacious word here. There is no doubting the eminent seriousness of the author and the admirable competence he brings to bear on his ambitious task. There is plenty of reason for doubting his thesis in the historical record of the 1930s. The paragraphs that follow provide diverse reasons for doubting its validity. Doubting its truth would be tantamount to seriously entertaining the possibility that it might not exist. Although there can be no doubting the expense of the council's training programme, the extraordinary thing is its relative infrequency. He wasn't a man much given to doubting or to suffering doubters. But what shall be his legacy, beyond the witticisms and all the doubting that befit the admirable liberalism of the position? At first sight, there are several reasons for doubting this. Indeed, confusion on this point would be grounds for doubting that a judge is competent. 64. He perceives that in order to hold on to this extreme position of doubting everything, he has engaged all his mental and spiritual powers. There is, however, no doubting the sincere anguish of people who have over long and productive lives cared greatly about the state of the language. He begins by doubting my claims regarding economics, writing that he has "not seen any economist explicitly supporting the slogan" (pp. 13-14). However, there can be little doubting that undignified treatment is more likely to engender feelings of resentment in an individual than reassurance. Their task was to convince doubting officials that they, too, could be counted as agents of civilizing progress. 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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