tenuous
英 ['tenj??s]
美 ['t?nju?s]
助記提示
1. tenu- + -ous.
2. => having slight importance, not substantial.
中文詞源
tenuous 纖細(xì)的，易斷的，脆弱的來自拉丁語 tenuis,拉長的，薄的，細(xì)的，來自 PIE*ten,展開，詞源同 extend,thin,attenuate.引 申詞義纖細(xì)的，脆弱的等。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. This decision puts the President in a somewhat tenuous position.
- 這個決定使得總統(tǒng)的位置有些岌岌可危。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. a tenuous hold on life
- 命若游絲
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 3. He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.
- 他對現(xiàn)實認(rèn)識很膚淺.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The cultural and historical links between the many provinces were seen to be very tenuous.
- 許多省份之間的文化和歷史紐帶被認(rèn)為是很脆弱的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The historical links between many provinces were seen to be very tenuous.
- 許多省份之間的歷史紐帶被認(rèn)為是很脆弱的。
來自辭典例句