Doubtful
['daʊtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['daʊtfəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) fraught with uncertainty or doubt; 'they were doubtful that the cord would hold'; 'it was doubtful whether she would be admitted'; 'dubious about agreeing to go' .
(adj.) open to doubt or suspicion; 'the candidate's doubtful past'; 'he has a dubious record indeed'; 'what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false'; 'it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought'- Karen Horney .
(adj.) unsettled in mind or opinion; 'drew a few tentative conclusions' .
手打:斯蒂芬--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
(a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.
(a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
(a.) Of uncertain issue or event.
(a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
校對:西尔玛
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Wavering, undecided, hesitating, undetermined, in suspense.[2]. Ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, obscure, enigmatical, problematical.[3]. Indeterminate, undecided, uncertain, questionable.
編輯:洛娜
同義詞及反義詞：
[See DOUBT_and_EQUIVOCAL]
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例句/造句/用法:
- I don't disguise from myself, or from you, I went on, that the prospect before us is more than doubtful. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I felt some hesitation in suggesting rank as high as the colonelcy of a regiment, feeling somewhat doubtful whether I would be equal to the position. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Their failure to agree c aused the observer to reject one and mark the other as doubtful. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Still a little doubtful, because of her not looking at him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Explosions have occurred, however, in cases where it is extremely doubtful whether gas has been present in dangerous quantity, and attention has been drawn to the possible causes. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But even if they tamed the horse, it is still more doubtful whether they rode it or had much use for it when it was tamed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr. Bumble tasted the medicine with a doubtful look; smacked his lips; took another taste; and put the cup down empty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He was not in the least doubtful of himself, as regards Gerald. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It is very doubtful if any single fingerprint will ever be exactly duplicated by any finger other than the one which originally made it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It ain't that I object to being passed over for a stranger, though I regard the stranger as a more than doubtful customer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We must remember that in the time of Buddha it is doubtful if even the Iliad had been committed to writing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He bowed rather awkwardly, and turning from her with a stranger's embarrassment, he met the doubtful light from the window. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I was so doubtful of myself now, and put so much trust in him, that I could not satisfy myself whether I ought to refer to it when he did not. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It is doubtful if it will take the fever again for a long time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But though this question be very important, it is not very difficult nor doubtful. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But it is more than doubtful if he had any such separation in mind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Stephen looked doubtful. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Who began it, or how fair it was, or how unfair, may be doubtful; but how it ended is certainly not doubtful, for the victim was found throttled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- When the patient has been released in this doubtful manner, and is taken to Mr. Fairlie, does he recognise her? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It terminated like the former; though something approaching to a ray, we could not tell whence, shed a very doubtful twilight in the space. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Yer doubtful of her, are yer? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I noted down these particulars in my pocket-book, feeling as I did so both doubtful and disheartened about my next proceedings. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Nothing doubtful was discovered. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I could see no cause for any uneasiness or any doubt, but she had made me a little uneasy, and a little doubtful, nevertheless. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- So rude was the native culture of the Romans that it is doubtful whether they had any schools before the advent of Greek learning. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But whether he should succeed in that mode of contributing to the majority on the right side was very doubtful to him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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