tenuous（英語單詞），形容詞。該詞核心含義包括“稀薄的”、“脆弱的”、“貧乏的”、“不確定的”，既可描述物理形態的纖細特徵（如細電線、稀薄電漿），也可指抽象概念的薄弱性（如證據不足的關聯或脆弱的職業狀態）。
作為多語義辭彙，tenuous在具體語境中呈現雙重屬性：物理學領域特指物質低密度特性（如稀薄大氣層、低密度電漿），社會學與法學領域則強調事物聯繫的微弱性及資源/意義的貧乏性（如法院不採納薄弱證據、經濟基礎匱乏的社區）。其副詞形式tenuously及名詞tenuity均派生自形容詞原義。
該詞語源可追溯至1590年代，由拉丁語tenuis（纖細/瘦弱）演變而來，原始印歐語詞根*ten-（拉伸）構成其語義基礎。1817年發展出“重要性微薄”與“資源貧乏”的比喻義，現代用法持續涵蓋物理特性與抽象概念雙重維度。
基本介紹
- 外文名：tenuous
- 英式讀音：[ˈtenjuəs]
- 美式讀音：[ˈtenjuəs]
- 詞性：形容詞
短語搭配,單詞用法,雙語例句,
短語搭配
tenuous wires 細電線
tenuous body 纖體
tenuous s 空洞的
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
tenuous /ˈtɛnjʊəs/ TEM8
1.ADJ If you describe something such as a connection, a reason, or someone's position as tenuous, you mean that it is very uncertain or weak. 脆弱的
例：He did not speculate on the future of his tenuous career.
他沒有考慮到自己不穩定的職業前景。
雙語例句
- He did not speculate on the future of his tenuous career. 他沒有考慮到自己不穩定的職業前景。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》
- His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous. 最後證實他與這個組織的關係充其量不過是不即不離罷了。《牛津詞典》
- The picture was that of a long tenuous line stretching from bizerte to gafsa. 圖片上是從比塞大延至蓋夫薩的一條長而脆弱的陣線。
- These are just casual, tenuous electronic pings. 這些只是一些隨意的、空洞的電子接觸而已。
- This is where hopes of an Asia-led rebound are most tenuous. 這就是為何亞洲所帶領的復甦希望是如此脆弱了.
- Unfortunately, the prospects for controlling costs are tenuous. 不幸的是，控制支出的前景渺茫。
- The gloom about jobs is overdone, but the outlook remains tenuous 關於就業有些過於悲觀，但也難言樂觀
- Now, the most tenuous of news reports has ramped the talk up again. 目前這則最飄渺的新聞報導再一次被重提。
- The balance is tenuous, but right now it's working to his advantage. 這平衡是微妙的，但它現在對他產生了有利的一面。
- This weak link can be even more tenuous than might first be apparent. 這個脆弱的連結可能會比最初更弱。
- The encryption used by secure websites relies on tenuous relationships. 安全網站使用的加密依賴脆弱的關係。
- Perhaps Congressmen behave this way because their links to voters are tenuous. 或許國會議員們之所以這樣做是因為他們與投票者之間並無多大的關聯。
- Mitra admits that the analogies between bird culture and human culture are tenuous. Mitra承認將鳥類文化與人類文化進行類比有點牽強。
- Even at its most tenuous and hollowed out, he finds some shape, a sense of cyclic pattern. 甚至在它最纖細也被耗盡的時刻，他看到生命的老去所展現出的輪迴之義
- For this there is only tenuous empirical support when interest rates are close to zero. 對於這一點，當利率接近零時，只有微弱的經驗方面的支持。
- In this method, the relationship of risk management and the key project measurements is tenuous. 在此方法中，風險管理和關鍵項目測量的關係是纖細的。
- If our self respect is based on the praise of others then our self respect will be very tenuous. 如果我們的自我尊重建立在他人的表揚之上，那么這種自我尊重將是非常脆弱的。
- If Mr Lewis's grip on his job looks tenuous, his bank's grip on Merrill's talent is equally shaky. 如果劉易斯先生對自己的工作都看起來沒什麼辦法，那么他的銀行能否管理好美林的人才也同樣令人質疑。
- In only a tenuous sense, then, is E. coli a species in the way that, say humans or mice are species. 只有在一個很狹義的範圍內，大腸桿菌才能像人類或老鼠那樣稱為一個物種。
- For example, the relationship between happiness and income is complicated, and after a point, tenuous. 例如，幸福和收入的關係比較複雜，但是超過某一個點之後，它們的關聯就很薄弱了。
- In tenuous times, your supervisor is one of the few people who may be able to shield you from a layoff. 在經濟危機時期，你的上司可能是能夠保護你不被裁員的人之一。
- Time, however, made Reich's grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939. 不管怎樣，時間使得賴希對現實的感覺更加細膩，特別是他1939年逃亡到美國之後。
- Time, however, made Reich’s grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939. 時間證明，賴希的理論越來越偏離實際，尤其是1939年他逃到美國之後。
- Dugongs are now legally protected throughout their range, but their populations are still in a tenuous state. 儒艮目前在整個範圍內受到法律的保護，但其數量仍然處於貧乏的狀態中。
- Unfortunately, the relationship between natural justice and the law is sometimes tenuous, as it is in this case. 不幸的是，自然正義與法律的關係有時很脆弱，正如此事。
- Outages like this shake users' already tenuous faith in the reliability of services that hold their most important data files. 這類的停機事件，讓用戶對是否可以將重要檔案放在其服務中的信心產生了動搖。
