柯林斯英汉双解大词典
tenuous /ˈtɛnjʊəs/ TEM8
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ADJ If you describe something such as a connection, a reason, or someone's position as tenuous, you mean that it is very uncertain or weak. 脆弱的
例：He did not speculate on the future of his tenuous career.
他没有考虑到自己不稳定的职业前景。
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He did not speculate on the future of his tenuous career.
他没有考虑到自己不稳定的职业前景。
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His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.
最后证实他与这个组织的关系充其量不过是不即不离罢了。
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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。
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The title comes from one of her thoughts during this time: "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone."
VOA: standard.2010.01.08
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And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.
如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。
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