Even at its most tenuous and hollowed out, he finds some shape, a sense of cyclic pattern.
甚至在它最纤细也被耗尽的时刻，他看到生命的老去所展现出的轮回之义。
This will enable us to leapfrog the Japanese and make the best use of an area in which we hold a tenuous advantage.
这将使我们能超越日本人并尽量利用一个我们略占优势的领域。
Although these two tyrants fought against a common foe, it was only a matter of time until their tenuous alliance collapsed.
尽管这两个暴君对抗共同的敌人，但他们脆弱联盟的破裂只是时间的问题。
The picture was that of a long tenuous line stretching from bizerte to gafsa.
图片上是从比塞大延至盖夫萨的一条长而脆弱的阵线。
The solar wind is a high-speed but extremely tenuous stream of electrically charged gases—ionized hydrogen and helium—that flow outward from the sun.
太阳风是一种高速但非常稀薄的从太阳向外流动的带电气体离子氢、氦流。
Dugongs are now legally protected throughout their range, but their populations are still in a tenuous state.
儒艮目前在整个范围内受到法律的保护，但其数量仍然处于贫乏的状态中。
A new trove of GDP data reveals America's recession to be much deeper than previously understood, and the recovery much more tenuous.
一系列新的GDP数据显示，美国的经济萧条比预期严重许多，就连经济复苏也比预期微弱许多。
In only a tenuous sense, then, is E. coli a species in the way that, say humans or mice are species.
只有在一个很狭义的范围内，大肠杆菌才能像人类或老鼠那样称为一个物种。
In tenuous times, your supervisor is one of the few people who may be able to shield you from a layoff.
在经济危机时期，你的上司可能是能够保护你不被裁员的人之一。
Mapping is by its nature inexact, a tenuous connection between constantlychanging physical reality and a representation of same that's out of date theinstant it's created.
由于绘图本身的不精确性，就导致了物理实在的不断更新与其立刻过时的相同代表的脱节。
Geysers erupt when sunlight evaporates volatile deposits of nitrogen, and a thin atmosphere of nitrogen holds tenuous clouds in weather patterns that change with Triton's seasons.
但是这样一个冰冻的世界却惊人的鲜活。间歇泉喷发时，易挥发的氮气沉淀物在阳光作用下蒸发，薄薄的氮气层随特里同上的季节变换展现出不同天气的云层。
Google maintains that its lead in the Web search market is tenuous, saying that with a simple click of a mouse, a user's loyalty could evaporate at any moment.
Google坚持认为其在网络搜索市场上的领先地位是脆弱的。该公司说任何时候，只要一个简单的鼠标点击，用户的忠诚度就可能会消失。
Isango has in a recent press release tried to claim some sort of special status by virtue of a tenuous connection with the history of District Six.
在最近的一次新闻发布会上，Isango声称它和第六区的历史有着千丝万缕的联系，试图借此获得特殊的地位。
Clearly Josephson's overall grasp of science and cuisine (and web design) is tenuous, but he's still got a chance to turn things around.
很明显Josephson对科学和烹饪(还有网页设计)的整体掌握是肤浅的，但是他仍有机会咸鱼翻身。
The logic is tenuous: it is, after all, Amazon which is firing these local entrepreneurs (some 10, 000 in California alone this month) as a way to avoid collecting tax.
这在逻辑上是脆弱的：说到底，亚马逊这种回避征税的方法，其实是在对当地的企业家们开火(到这个月为止，在加利福尼亚就至少有一万家)。
Back in the 1980s, Audi's grip on the U.S. market was tenuous; all it took was a nudge to ruin its U.S. operations for more than a decade.
反观80年代，奥迪在美国市场份额很微薄，召回仅仅破坏了其10来年的经营。
Out from there, the tiers contain more casual friends with whom you invest less time and tend to have a less profound and more tenuous connection.
以下的层级包括更随意一些的朋友，你在他们身上投入的时间更少，你们之间的关系往往也没那么深，会更脆弱。
He followed the tenuous trail of the rainbow comet, a natural stellar phenomenon said to lead directly to Roon.
他紧跟彩虹彗星的细长尾迹——这种天然的星际现象据说可以引领人们直达鲁恩。
This is a very tenuous situation and I am not updating about the risk of banks, social security checks and the like.
这是一个很脆弱的状况，我不会更新银行、社会安全保障以及类似的风险了。
If it is a strained relationship, if the connection between the idea and its object is tenuous, then we are dealing with an unclear idea.
如果它们之间的关系牵强附会，如果思想观念及其对象之间的联系微不足道，那么，我们就是在和含混的思想观念打交道。
For instance, a wholesale distributor faces risks of over - and under-supply positions, tenuous supply sources, and unnecessarily high purchase prices.
例如，一个批发本着商面临着供货过量和不足、薄弱的供货来源以及不必要的高采购价格等方面的风险。
I kept a tenuous connection with the history school, wrote my two essays a week, and attended an occasional lecture.
我和历史学院保持着若即若离的联系，一周写两篇论文，听听临时讲座。
Cassini had passed through a tenuous cloud.
卡西尼号还曾经穿越过稀薄的云层。
In its place is the illusion of an elongated leg and only a most tenuous connection to the ground.
取而代之的是一个长脚的幻想最脆弱的连接，只有在地上。
In its place is the illusion of an elongated leg and only a most tenuous connection to the ground.
取而代之的是一个长脚的幻想最脆弱的连接，只有在地上。
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