0 A tenuous connection, idea, or situation is weak and possibly does not exist. -- （關係、想法、形勢等）不確定的，不明朗的
The police have only found a tenuous connection between the two robberies. 我們只能認定這兩樁搶劫案之間可能有某些聯繫。
If the rights of property could not be enforced even in the countryside, respect for property located in towns could well have been more tenuous.
Although this more closely reflects daily family life, it also makes comparative statements somewhat tenuous.
Under an optimality-theoretic account of grammar, such 'deviation' hypotheses are untenable, and the evidence supporting them tenuous.
Bilinguals have sometimes been described as 'marginal people', because the link with each of their two communities is thought to be tenuous.
Even adult speech that adheres to adult standards may furnish no clues or only tenuous ones.
Individual chapters are relatively short, and would have benefited from elaboration, and the links between them are rather tenuous.
Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to a tenuous relation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords.
Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one.
