untenable是什么意思

双语用例

• A successful military campaign may require giving up some tactically untenable territory.

• The option of maintaining the hospitals for any significant strategic period was simply untenable.

• Today, however, such an assertion is wholly untenable.

• The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, become untenable in practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined.

• The first is the recognition that the failure of foundationalism in philosophy makes any attempt to claim a monopoly on truth, methodology etc. untenable.

• Treating wild living resources as has been done in the past is untenable for the long term.

• The unpredictability in science in general entails that the technocratic ideal of the discovery of an optimal solution to social decisions is untenable.

• The critique of class and other grand concepts was located in a world in which meta-narratives were becoming increasingly untenable.