They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information is similar to say, sifting through a suspect's purse.

法官们首先就应该予以摒弃，智能手机是个巨大的数据信息仓库，而加州关于“搜查智能手机的内容，就像在搜查嫌疑犯的钱包”的说辞是站不住脚的。

Those allegations, which many thought far-fetched at the time, have now been formally confirmed.

这些在当时看来站不住脚的指控如官方证。

Republicans have to be very careful not to be seen as defending the indefensible.

共和党人必须非常小心，以免视为在捍卫站不住脚的事情。

The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place.

但这种说法在受人欢迎的欧洲露营地是站不住脚的。

So, unlike those containers, this hypothesis just didn't hold water.

所以，与那些容器不同的是，这个假说是站不住脚的。

I think actually, I've learned over the years, the advice actually is tenuous.

我认为上，这些年来我了解到，这个建上是站不住脚的。

If there is not a good payoff from the degree, that argument falls apart.

如果贷款拿到的学位没有得到好的回报，那么这个论据是站不住脚的。”

The time-honoured idea that the mind is essentially a little man, or homunculus, who sits in the brain doing clever things soon becomes problematic: who does all the clever things in the little man's brain?

传统的观点认为，从本质上说，心灵是一个住在人类大脑里从事智力活动小人，或者侏儒。不过，在丹尼特看来这种观点是站不住脚的：既然如此，那么，住在这个侏儒的大脑中，从事智力活动的人又是谁呢？

The chair of the Public Accounts Committee said the Starbucks claim that it had operated in Briain for 50 years without making a profit did not ring true.

英国公众统计委员会的主席认为星巴克声称在英国15年的经营没有盈利是站不住脚的。

A lot of starting and stopping could mean the texter is carefully constructing a response that might not hold up in a court of law.

频繁地写写停停可能意味着输入者正精心编造在法庭站不住脚的回答。

Not having a leg to stand on means a person does not have any evidence to support his or her argument.

站不住脚的意思是，一个人没有任何证据来支撑他自己的论点。

One former opposition leader Simon Busuttil has called on him to resign, saying his position after this arrest is untenable.

前反对派领导人西蒙·比叙蒂要求他辞职，称在这次逮捕后，他的职位是站不住脚的。

The idea that they get to choose who a terrorist group is based on pretty flimsy reasons sometimes.

他们认定谁是恐怖组织的想法有时是基于非常站不住脚的理由。

The argument against arming the rebels—that doing so would pour fuel on the fire—does not stand up.

反对提供军备的论调——认为这是火上浇油——是站不住脚的。

And he maintains that arguments which lean on tradition alone are inadequate, for the same reason that tradition cannot, nowadays, justify polygamy or footbinding.

他断言，在当社会，人们无法以传统作为行一夫多妻制或是裹小脚的理由，同理，那些仅仅靠传统为论据是论证是站不住脚的。

Certainly the idea that now the United States would begin to produce new weapons for use in countering Russia in this way is really destabilizing.

当然，美国现在开始生产新武器、用这种方式打击俄罗斯的想法上是站不住脚的。

In other words, maybe that $75,000 plateau idea is bunk.

换句话说，可能那个7.5万美元的幸福门槛理论是站不住脚的。

It's one of those things that doesn't really stand up.

这是一件站不住脚的事情。

John McWhorter agrees that the class-based swearing theory is bankrupt.

约翰·麦克沃特同意，基于阶级的脏话理论是站不住脚的。

So I think that that is legitimately immoral.

所以我认为这在道德上是站不住脚的。