tenuous是什么意思_tenuous怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

tenuous: tenuous: [16] Tenuous comes from the same ultimate ancestor as thin. It is an alteration of an earlier and now defunct tenuious, which was adapted from Latin tenuis ‘thin’. And this went back to the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch’, a variant of which produced English thin.
=> tend, thin
tenuous (adj.): 1590s, "thin, unsubstantial," irregularly formed from Latin tenuis "thin, drawn out, meager, slim, slender," figuratively "trifling, insignificant, poor, low in rank," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tanuh "thin," literally "stretched out;" see tenet) + -ous. The correct form with respect to the Latin is tenuious. The figurative sense of "having slight importance, not substantial" is found from 1817 in English. Related: Tenuously; tenuousness.

词态变化

副词 tenuously;

1. This decision puts the President in a somewhat tenuous position.: 这个决定使得总统的位置有些岌岌可危。

4. The cultural and historical links between the many provinces were seen to be very tenuous.: 许多省份之间的文化和历史纽带被认为是很脆弱的。

5. The historical links between many provinces were seen to be very tenuous.: 许多省份之间的历史纽带被认为是很脆弱的。

slender 细长的

aerial 空中的

weak 弱的

shaky 不稳固的

unsubstantiated 无事实根据的...

questionable 可疑的

feeble 虚弱的

vague 不明确的

unconvincing 不足以令人相信的...

half-hearted 缺乏热情的

slight 轻微的

thin 薄的

flimsy 轻而薄得

fragile 易碎的

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1. tenu- + -ous.
2. => having slight importance, not substantial.