Tenable
['tenəb(ə)l]
解釋/意思:
(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.
弗朗西丝編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Defensible, capable of being held or defended.
手打:特雷弗
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Maintainable, defensible, justifiable, sound, reasonable, consistent
ANT:Untenable, indefensible, unjustifiable, weak, hollow, fallacious, unreasonable,inconsistent, irrational, absurd
海因里希錄入
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- But when she was in conversation with Mrs. Plymdale that comforting explanation seemed no longer tenable. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I ask you now, is such a theory tenable? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It is for the sciences to say what generalizations are tenable about the world and what they specifically are. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
手打:苏珊