It was the one tenuous connection I felt with her.

我和玛拉的关系一直平平淡淡的。

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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。

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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。

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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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Despite its tenuous connection to fitness, the model page is supposedly one of most popular features on the site.

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It was the only concrete information he had about her, the one tenuous connection his mind could make with her.

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But Dickens is famous and he has a debt connection in his background and better a tenuous connection than no connection at all right?

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