tenable

英 [ˈtenəbl]

美 [ˈtenəbl]

adj.  说得过去的; 站得住脚的; 可保有，可保持，可担任(一段时间)

CET6IELTSGRE

BNC.18890 / COCA.26987

牛津词典

adj.

• 说得过去的；站得住脚的
  easy to defend against attack or criticism
  1. a tenable position
     说得过去的观点
  2. The old idea that this work was not suitable for women was no longer tenable.
     认为这种工作不适合妇女的旧想法再也站不住脚了。
• 可保有，可保持，可担任（一段时间）
  that can be held for a particular period of time
  1. The lectureship is tenable for a period of three years.
     讲师这一职务任期三年。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (论点、观点或立场)有道理的，站得住脚的
  If you say that an argument, point of view, or situation istenable, you believe that it is reasonable and could be successfully defended against criticism.
  1. This argument is simply not tenable...
     这个论点根本站不住脚。
  2. The only way his role can be clarified and his position made tenable again is if there's a public inquiry.
     弄清他扮演的角色并再次证明他的合理立场的唯一办法是展开公开调查。

英英释义

adj

• based on sound reasoning or evidence
  1. well-founded suspicions
  Synonym:well-founded

双语例句

• The only way his role can be clarified and his position made tenable again is if there's a public inquiry.
  弄清他扮演的角色并再次证明他的合理立场的唯一办法是展开公开调查。
• The basic problem from a scientific point of view is that some explanations which might be tenable from a chemical point of view, are precluded by physics.
  从科学的角度来看，一个最基本的困难是：某些解释或许从化学的角度来看是合理的，但是从物理学的立场来看却又被否定。
• Even so, company officials in China worry that a strategy based around low costs is becoming less tenable.
  即便如此，在华公司高管也担心，低成本战略变得越来越不可持续。
• If fortuitous causality in criminal law is not tenable, necessary causality in criminal law itself is an issue.
  如果刑法偶然因果关系难以成立，则刑法必然因果关系本身也是有问题的。
• We took too long to recognise that British membership of the ERM was neither desirable nor tenable, even if it was in line with our pro-European views.
  我们过了好久才认识到，英国加入欧洲汇率机制既不可取也不可行，即便它符合我们亲欧洲的观点。
• With this in mind, it is not tenable that the clarification should contradict the clarified.
  有了这个认识，要说解释应与被解释的内容相抵触，是站不住脚的。
• The ostensible excuse that it is unable to do so looks less tenable now it has some military successes against the Taliban.
  既然已经取得了一些军事胜利，那么表面上借口无法给予援助如今看来更加不成立。
• This argument is simply not tenable
  这个论点根本站不住脚。
• Plain, mountain root and anti-root, and the AREM model is tenable.
  存在山根和反山根，艾里模式成立。
• On September12th Mr Abe claimed that his position was no longer tenable because Mr Ozawa refused to meet him.
  安倍在9月12日声称由于小泽拒绝与他会面，他已无法行使职权而提出辞职。