improbably

英

美

adv.  未必然地,不像真实地

BNC.21410 / COCA.21769

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不大可能的;未必会(发生)的
  Something that isimprobableis unlikely to be true or to happen.
  1. ...a highly improbable coincidence...
     几率非常小的巧合
  2. It seems improbable that this year's figure will fall much below last year's 75,000.
     看来今年的数字不大可能比去年的 75,000 差太多。
• ADJ-GRADED 奇异的;荒谬的
  If you describe something asimprobable, you mean it is strange, unusual, or ridiculous.
  1. On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.
     表面上看,他们的婚姻似乎是个荒谬的结合。
  2. ...her improbable accent.
     她奇怪的口音

英英释义

adv

• not easy to believe
  1. behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains
  Synonym:incrediblyimplausiblyunbelievably

双语例句

• Kim Jong-un will either oversee the collapse of the state his grandfather created, or – improbably – a radical reform of its approach to economic management and state control.
  金正恩要么看着其祖父创立的国家崩溃，要么对其经济管理和政府控制方式进行彻底改革（这不太可能）。
• Do you see that man over there with the improbably large biceps?
  你看见那边一个胳膊异常发达的人吗？
• We would instead travel with new cycling companions: four Frenchmen and a Swiss, all old friends from Hong Kong, and one strapping Englishman who, improbably, turned out to be my old statistics professor from university.
  我们只好与新同伴一起骑车旅行：4个法国人和一个瑞士人，均是来自香港的旧识；还有一个身材魁梧的英国人，令人难以置信的是，他竟然是我以前的大学统计教授。
• Improbably, he survived, but he exhibited stark behavioral changes& becoming detached and irreverent, though never criminal.
  令人不可思议地是，他活了下来，但是他的行为却和以前大不一样&他变得冷漠无礼，即便没有成为罪犯。
• Such support generally rests on the economic illiteracy of the "lump of labour fallacy", which improbably assumes that the skilled workers employed under such contracts have absolutely no other options except unemployment.
  这种支持一般都源自于对“劳动合成谬误”（lumpoflabourfallacy）的无知，该理论令人难以置信地认为，除了失业以外，这些合同聘用的技术工人绝对没有其它的选择。
• So even if the European Council was able to agree on such an improbably ambitious agenda, its leaders would have to continue to outdo themselves for months and years to come.
  因此，即使欧洲理事会能就这一志比天高的议程达成一致，欧洲领导人在今后几月乃至几年内也将不得不继续拿出更具雄心的措施。
• Cheating among the students seemed to be rampant as an improbably large proportion of them reported rolling high numbers.
  在这项实验中，作弊的同学看上去有很多，因为他们大多数都报了一个很高的数字。
• The major conclusions are summarized as below: ( 1) The upper-Triassic white micas characterized by low Si (< 3.2 Si atoms pfu), indicates that the HP-UHP rocks in Dabie orogen improbably cropped out to the surface at that time.
  上三叠统该区地层砂岩中碎屑白云母多以低硅白云母（Si<3.2）为特征，暗示此时大别造山带高压-超高压岩石很可能没有出露地表。
• Those improbably large gains come largely from increasing sales in underserved markets.
  这些似乎不太现实的大幅增长主要来自于服务水平较低的市场的销售增长。
• But no. the ball rolled sweetly towards the hole, improbably curving round, hovered on the edge of the cup, then tumbled in.
  但是球慢慢滚向球洞，令人难以置信地绕着弯，在洞口停了一下，然后滚了进去。