improbable
improbable
adjective
improbability
( pl. -ies)
noun(pl. -ies)
improbably
adverb
语源
adjective
- not likely to be true or to happen
不可能为真的，不可能发生的
this account of events was seen by the jury as most improbable.
这番对事件的报告在陪审团看来是最不可能为真的。
■unexpected and apparently inauthentic
出乎意料的，明显不真实的
the characters have improbable names.
这些角色显然是用假名字。
improbability
( pl. -ies)
noun(pl. -ies)
improbably
adverb
语源
- late 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin improbabilis 'hard to prove', from in- 'not' + probabilis (see probable)
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