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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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。

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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。

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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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The rural 5-acre property surrounded by forest has a tenuous water supply from a well.

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