tenable

adj.

1. 说得过去的；站得住脚的
   easy to defend against attack or criticism
   1. a tenable position
      说得过去的观点
   2. The old idea that this work was not suitable for women was no longer tenable.
      认为这种工作不适合妇女的旧想法再也站不住脚了。
2. 可保有，可保持，可担任（一段时间）
   that can be held for a particular period of time
   1. The lectureship is tenable for a period of three years.
      讲师这一职务任期三年。

1. ADJ-GRADED (论点、观点或立场)有道理的，站得住脚的
   If you say that an argument, point of view, or situation is tenable, you believe that it is reasonable and could be successfully defended against criticism.
   1. This argument is simply not tenable...
      这个论点根本站不住脚。
   2. The only way his role can be clarified and his position made tenable again is if there's a public inquiry.
      弄清他扮演的角色并再次证明他的合理立场的唯一办法是展开公开调查。

1. This argument is simply not tenable
   这个论点根本站不住脚。
2. The only way his role can be clarified and his position made tenable again is if there's a public inquiry.
   弄清他扮演的角色并再次证明他的合理立场的唯一办法是展开公开调查。
3. We took too long to recognise that British membership of the ERM was neither desirable nor tenable, even if it was in line with our pro-European views.
   我们过了好久才认识到，英国加入欧洲汇率机制既不可取也不可行，即便它符合我们亲欧洲的观点。
4. Even so, company officials in China worry that a strategy based around low costs is becoming less tenable.
   即便如此，在华公司高管也担心，低成本战略变得越来越不可持续。
5. This arrangement is no longer tenable.
   这种安排不再合理了。
6. How long is the post tenable for?
   这个职位任期多长？
7. This is a tenable approach and will do us much good.
   这样站得住脚，益处大。
8. Is plainly not a tenable one, and the opposite idea that a text emerges from a complex matrix of social and historical circumstances is certainly a good one.
   很显然是站不住脚的，与这相反的观点，也就是文本产生于，复杂的社会和历史背景的观点，当然是很好的。
9. But I think this legend is somewhat tenable.
   但我觉得传说还是有一定根据的。
10. Fear we must recognise that Crete is no longer tenable and that troops must be withdrawn as far as possible.
    恐怕我们必须承认，克里特岛不能再守下去，部队必须尽量撤出。
11. If an interested party lodges an objection to a maritime injunction, the maritime court shall order to cancel the maritime injunction if it deems the causes are tenable through investigation.
    利害关系人对海事强制令提出异议，海事法院经审查，认为理由成立的，应当裁定撤销海事强制令。
12. On September12th Mr Abe claimed that his position was no longer tenable because Mr Ozawa refused to meet him.
    安倍在9月12日声称由于小泽拒绝与他会面，他已无法行使职权而提出辞职。
13. If the causes for applying for reconsideration by the party who opposes the claim are tenable, the evidence preserved shall be returned to the party who opposes the claim.
    被请求人申请复议的理由成立的，应当将保全的证据返还被请求人。
14. The view that the earth is flat was no longer tenable
    认为地球是平的这一观点站不住脚了
15. His new theory is tenable.
    他的新理论是站得住脚的。
16. The basic problem from a scientific point of view is that some explanations which might be tenable from a chemical point of view, are precluded by physics.
    从科学的角度来看，一个最基本的困难是：某些解释或许从化学的角度来看是合理的，但是从物理学的立场来看却又被否定。
17. If you set a different era, is this story tenable?
    如果设定在一个不同的年代，故事还能成立吗？
18. It is no longer tenable to argue that monetary union is possible without some form of fiscal union, however narrowly defined.
    有关货币联盟不需要某种形式的财政联盟就能维系的观点，已经站不住脚无论这种财政联盟的定义是多么狭窄。
19. The ostensible excuse that it is unable to do so looks less tenable now it has some military successes against the Taliban.
    既然已经取得了一些军事胜利，那么表面上借口无法给予援助如今看来更加不成立。
20. He says a change of political regime in Hungary also meant his position at Malev was no longer tenable.
    他说，匈牙利政权更迭，也意味着自己在匈航的位置难以为继。
21. With this in mind, it is not tenable that the clarification should contradict the clarified.
    有了这个认识，要说解释应与被解释的内容相抵触，是站不住脚的。
22. If fortuitous causality in criminal law is not tenable, necessary causality in criminal law itself is an issue.
    如果刑法偶然因果关系难以成立，则刑法必然因果关系本身也是有问题的。
23. Plain, mountain root and anti-root, and the AREM model is tenable.
    存在山根和反山根，艾里模式成立。
24. As there is nothing mystical or theological about confucianism, such a view is, indeed, quite tenable.
    因为孔教没有什么神秘的或神学的色彩，这样的一种看法的确是站得住脚的。
25. That was not a prediction. But it still seems a tenable proposition.
    这一论断算不上什么预言，但即使放在现在来看，它似乎依然站得住脚。
26. He's got a scholarship tenable for four years.
    他已得到为期四年的奖学金。
27. His position is not tenable, if nothing else because of the strategic error.
    他的职位是保不住的，即便只是因为他犯了战略失误。
28. As a matter of fact, tenable evidences from related documents can verify the account.
    文献告诉我们，子夏学《易》传《易》应为事实。
29. His theory is no longer tenable now that new facts have appeared.
    现在出现了新情况，他的说法站不住脚了。
30. A deformable layer theory does not appear to be tenable in glass-reinforced composites.
    变形层理论在玻璃增强复合材料中说服力不强。

adj

1. based on sound reasoning or evidence
   1. well-founded suspicions

   Synonym:    well-founded