Tenable
['tenəb(ə)l]
解释:
(a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
弗朗西丝编辑
同义词及近义词:
a. Defensible, capable of being held or defended.
手打:特雷弗
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Maintainable, defensible, justifiable, sound, reasonable, consistent
ANT:Untenable, indefensible, unjustifiable, weak, hollow, fallacious, unreasonable,inconsistent, irrational, absurd
海因里希录入
解释:
adj. capable of being retained kept or defended.—ns. Tenabil′ity Ten′ableness the state or quality of being tenable.
手打:苏珊
例句:
- But when she was in conversation with Mrs. Plymdale that comforting explanation seemed no longer tenable. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I ask you now, is such a theory tenable? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It is for the sciences to say what generalizations are tenable about the world and what they specifically are. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
手打:苏珊