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。

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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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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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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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Fortunately, we have an alternative to resting a brave new world order on so tenuous a basis: Pax Democratica an international arrangement whose leading nations all are responsible to their people insofar as their people determine the form, policies and priorities of the government that rules them.

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Having been roundly castigated for failing to give Andrew Symonds caught behind on day one - the all-rounder went on to hit an unbeaten 162 - he awarded the Australian a tenuous appeal for a catch at the wicket which ended Dravid's innings.

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