improbable
常考释义
1.不大可能真实的(或发生的);不大可能的not likely to be true or to happen
an improbable story大概不是真实的故事
It all sounded highly improbable .一切听上去很荒唐。
It seems improbable that the current situation will continue.当前的局势似乎不大可能继续下去。
2.奇异的;荒谬的seeming strange because it is not what you would expect
Her hair was an improbable shade of yellow.她的头发带有怪怪的黄色。
But who can rule out the notion that the most improbable alternative might be the only one possible?
但说不定最离奇的选择反而却是唯一的答案呢;谁也不能排除这种可能性。
Knowing Io Welland as he had, he deemed it very improbable that she had even so much as mentioned him to any of her friends.
就他了解的韦兰*爱娥,他认为她不大可能,向她的任何一个朋友提到他。
Oregon State now was beginning to roll. They swept through the Super Regionals the next week to punch their improbable return trip to Omaha.
俄勒冈州队开始波动了。他们下一个周横扫了超级地区联队,从此开始了他们重返奥马哈的征途。
He had not lived to see the remarkable fruit of his own improbable journey westward.
他没能活着看到他自己的那一次难以置信的西行旅程所结出的非凡果实。
Among these details the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we preserve out of respect for the truth.
在那些细微的情节里,读者将遇见两三处似乎不可能真有其事的经过,但是我们为了尊重事实,仍旧保存下来。
There is nothing intrinsically improbable about this incident, which is stamped indeed, with all the marks of literary truth.
这些事情本身没有任何不可能的因素,它印记着文学真实性的一切特征。
A man who suffered concussion after diving into a shallow pool has made a seemingly improbable discovery: it made him a musical genius.
美国一名男子在一个较浅的游泳池跳水导致脑震荡,之后却意外发现这起事故使他成为了音乐天才。
A woman with a cast on her left arm struggled along in improbable heels, while another had only a huge blue teddy bear for luggage.
一个妇女背着与自己完全不成比例的大包,而另一个只是带着一个大大的玩具熊。
Good. Then I shall attempt the impossible -- or at least the improbable.
很好。那我应该来挑战下这个不可能--至少看上去是不太可能的事。
It is the result of a cutting-edge computational process and people's responses to it are just as improbable.
它是顶级计算机处理的结果,人们对这个杰作的反应是:太不可思议了。
Just seconds after Greece won an improbable European Championship, church bells rang and cars clogged the streets of every city and hamlet.
就在希腊队不可思议地夺得欧洲杯冠军之后的一刹那,教堂的钟声响起,车辆把每个城市和乡村的大街小巷堵得水泄不通。
Not one word about the magic power of music in antiquity seems to me improbable when I am under the spell of her simple melody.
在她简单旋律的魔力之下,关于古老音乐具有魔力的说法,我觉得句句都有可能。
If Brentford to Barcelona feels like an improbable journey, then consider the fact that football was not even Szczesny's first sport.
如果从布伦特福德到巴塞罗那是令人难以置信的飞跃,那么相像下,足球甚至不是什琴斯尼的第一运动这个事实。
Picking the right six numbers in a lotto is, to say the least, statistically improbable.
全部选中乐透的六个正确号码——退一步说——在统计学上是不可能的。
Mr Blatter says that he will reform the organisation. That seems, to put it mildly, improbable.
布拉特先生称他将改革国际足联,委婉些说,可能性不大。
It must reject improbable alternatives just as it rejects the permanency of the existing order.
就像它拒斥现存秩序的永久性一样,它必定也排拒没有可能性的秩序选项。
It is an improbable scandal that features Rupert Murdoch's humbling at the hands of Parliament as one of its dullest chapters.
鲁伯特•默多克(RupertMurdoch,通称老默多克)在议会面前卑躬屈膝显然不大可能是这一丑闻最无聊的一页。
I knew that this was highly improbable, but didn't see any sense in arguing.
我知道这不大可能,但争吵是行不通的。
Many other ingenious and improbable theories have been suggested to explain the origin of the name.
人们还提出许多有独创性但却不大可能的理论来解释这一名字的来源。
I've had an improbable life, and a wonderful one full of faith, hope, and love, as well as more than my share of grace and good fortune.
我经历了一段仿佛是做梦一般的生活,充满了信仰、希望和爱;生活给予我过多的恩惠和好运。
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