Dubious
['djuːbɪəs] or ['dubɪəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not convinced; 'they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious' .
校對:奥利弗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
(a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
(a.) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Uncertain, doubtful, equivocal, ambiguous, not plain, not clear.
格里塔手打
同義詞及反義詞：
[See EQUIVOCAL]
艾丽萨校對
解釋/意思:
adj. doubtful: undetermined: causing doubt: of uncertain event or issue.—adv. Dū′biously.—ns. Dū′biousness Dubī′ety Dubios′ity doubtfulness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Mr. Cruncher was soothed, but shook his head in a dubious and moral way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- His inference is more or less dubious and hypothetical. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Which, I think,' observed Mr. Bob Sawyer, pursuing the thread of the subject--'which, I think, Ben, are rather dubious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I dare say Tarzan of the Apes is watching us all right, he answered, in a dubious tone. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the second. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The beer has reminded me that I forgot, Bob--yes; they _are _dubious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In spite of Fulton’s gloomy tone in his letter there were many among the men and women who made the first trip with him who were not dubious concerning the invention. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- What's dubious? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- What's rather dubious? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He conducted the young lady down to dinner in a dubious and agitated frame of mind. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Dubious results are not tolerated for a moment in Edison's experimental work. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She stepped aside when Mrs. Rougemont the actress passed with her dubious family. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I took a revel of the scene; I drank the elastic night-air--the swell of sound, the dubious light, now flashing, now fading. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A very large part of the government grant had been spent, and the situation looked very dubious. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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