untenable

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un- +‎ tenable

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韻部：-ɛnəbəl

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untenable (比較級 more untenable，最高級 most untenable)

（观点、立场等）站不住脚的
近義詞：unholdable, indefensible

反義詞：tenable, defensible, sustainable

The theory of cold fusion was untenable.
冷核聚变理论不堪一击。
- 1970, Gary Schwartz, Sect Ideologies and Social Status‎^[1], page 219:
  They are seeking to escape from the unpleasant implications of an untenable status dilemma. They desire but cannot afford a prestigious social status.
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- 1998, Susan Goodman, Ellen Glasgow: a biography‎^[2], page 149:
  The rumors about Anderson nevertheless placed Glasgow in an untenable social position, for close friends either suspected or knew of their engagement.
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- 2012, Heather A. Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study‎^[3], page 183:
  The modern family would be an artificial and untenable social structure in this early period, just as the clan appears to be an artificial institution in our own society.
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- 2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:
  Celebrating him [Robert E. Lee] in the time of George Floyd became, at last, untenable.
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- 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
  He describes the untenable position of the railways' finances reasonably dispassionately. From 1952 onwards, British Railways ran an operational deficit, and in 1961 made an annual loss of £86.9 million.
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不能居住的
反義詞：habitable
- 1915, Edward Frederic Benson, The Oakleyites‎^[5], page 84:
  […] ceilings, staircases, all that make a house habitable had vanished in the flare of his conflagration, and since his soul could no longer dwell there, it dwelt instead, so to speak, in the pleasant garden which surrounded the untenable house.
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- 1939, Hygeia‎^[6], volume 17, numbers 1-6, page 331:
  The floor was a veritable mud puddle, and even the meager bedding of old reindeer skins was wet from the dripping walls and ceiling. This untenable dwelling housed a family of six Eskimos: a grandmother, father and mother and three children.
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- 2007, Roger White, Britannia Prima: Britain's Last Roman Province‎^[7], page 192:
  It is equally plausible to interpret the evidence to imply a life-span extending well into the fifth century, followed by a phase when the building became increasingly shabby and then untenable.
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William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “untenable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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