improbability

[美國]/im,prɔbə'biləti/
[英國]/ɪmˌprɑbəˈbɪlɪti/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

n. 不大可能的事物,未必有的事
Word Forms

例句

The biases latent in every character, black or white, drive home the improbability of racial reconciliation in America.

無論正邪,每個角色中都潛藏着偏見,讓人明白美國的種族和解希望甚微。

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

我從來不理解,爲什麼那些能夠相信上帝創造如此無限可能的人,卻覺得魔鬼是不可思議呢?

He has been busy with his SMs during his interview, which in the interviewer's aspect could connotate the sickness of the poser and the improbability of intercoursing with bona fides.

談話中,他不停地收發短信,傳遞給記者的信息是:他厭倦這些提問,沒有與你進行真誠溝通的可能。

the improbability of winning the lottery

中彩票的幾率很小

the story's plot hinges on the improbability of the main character's survival

故事情節的關鍵在於主角生存的不可能性

despite the improbability, she decided to take a chance

儘管不太可能,她還是決定冒險一試

the proposal was met with skepticism due to its improbability

由於不太可能性,這個提議受到懷疑

the team's victory seemed to defy all improbabilities

這支球隊的勝利似乎違背了所有不可能性

the film's success was attributed to its ability to overcome improbabilities

這部電影的成功歸功於它能夠克服不可能性

the scientist's theory was dismissed as pure improbability

這位科學家的理論被認爲純屬不可能

the project's completion was seen as an improbability by many

許多人認爲這個項目的完成是不太可能的

the novel's ending was criticized for its reliance on improbabilities

小說結局因依賴不可能性而受到批評

the play's success was based on its exploration of human improbabilities

這部戲劇的成功建立在對人類不可能性的探索

原聲例句

But let's skip the improbabilities and imagine that time could be stopped somehow.

但是我們跳過這個不可能,假設通過某些方式時間可以靜止。

來源: If there is a if.

Due to the extensive improbability of this, numerous protests across the election erupted across the country.

由於這種不可能性很大,全國各地在選舉期間爆發了大量抗議活動。

來源: Realm of Legends

Since when has any fanatic been held back by the improbability of their righteous mission?

那種狂熱的信徒什麼時候因爲正義的使命難以完成而退縮過?

來源: True Blood Season 4

But this frail fence of vague improbabilities was soon hurled down by a rush of distinct agonizing fears.

但是,這種模糊的不可能的脆弱籬笆很快就被一股明顯的、痛苦的恐懼推倒了。

來源: Adam Bede (Volume 3)

Fifthly, the wages of labour in different employments vary according to the probability or improbability of success in them.

第五,不同職業的勞動工資根據其成功的可能性或不可能性而有所不同。

來源: The Wealth of Nations (Part One)

" Still, if Renauld had an affair with a woman called Bella, there seems no inherent improbability in his having another with Madame Daubreuil" .

“儘管如此,如果雷諾與一個名叫貝拉的女人有染,那麼他與多布勒伊夫人有外遇似乎並沒有內在的不可能性”。

來源: Murder at the golf course

In a mere fifteen thousand years, humans went from hunting and gathering to creating such improbabilities as the airplane, the Internet, and the ninety-nine cent double cheeseburger.

在僅僅一萬五千年的時間裏,人類從狩獵和採集發展到創造飛機、互聯網和九十九美分的雙層芝士漢堡等不可能實現的事物。

來源: World History Crash Course

" Certainly life emerging on Earth does not seem to be such a wild improbability that we require places elsewhere" .

“當然,地球上出現生命似乎並不是我們需要在其他地方尋找生命的極不可能的事情” 。

來源: Selected English short passages

I had almost determined to take this course, when the conviction suddenly came to me that the whole thing was a gigantic joke, a fabrication of rank improbability.

我幾乎已經下定決心要上這門課了, 但突然間我確信整件事是一個天大的笑話, 是一種等級不可能的捏造。

來源: Three mysterious people

Now, there was no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman, and on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr. Jaggers principally rested his case.

現在,除了這個女人之外,沒有任何合理的證據可以牽連到任何人,而賈格斯先生主要是根據她不可能做到這一點來決定他的案子的。

來源: Great Expectations (Original Version)

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