My own relations with Congress began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point.

我自己刚开始时与国会之间的关系便相当疏远和脆弱，当时，很久以前了，某个国会成员任命我去西点军校。

But just the prospect that it could speaks to the tenuous nature of the diplomacy.

但仅仅是这前景就说明了外交的脆弱本质。

As remnants expand and age they become more tenuous.

随着残余的膨胀力和年岁的增长，它们变得更加脆弱。

It depends on luck so tenuous, that the difference between good and bad may come down to a few unseen millimeters.

气是如此的脆弱，以至于好与坏的区别，可能只看不见的几毫米之间。

Mike, you take the tenuous win, you take the 10 minutes.

迈克，你以微弱的优势取得胜利，你拿到了 10 分钟。

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

我认为实际上，这些年来我了解到，这个建议实际上是站不住脚的。

Their position in Niger is tenuous at base.

他们尼日尔的形势岌岌可危。

Our CNN White House Correspondent Arlette Saenz has more on this tenuous deal.

CNN白宫记者阿莱特·萨恩斯将为您带来关于这笔岌岌可危的交易的详细报道。

The central government holds little influence beyond the capital Tripoli, making security precautions tenuous.

中央政府首都的黎波里之外的影响力甚微，这样安全防范非常虚弱。

And since then, the two sides have operated under a tenuous cease-fire.

从那以后，双方个脆弱的停火协议下作。

For now, the band’s travel plans are tenuous.

【tenuous】乐队的巡计划暂时还没确定。

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

整整个星期，他们几乎没有说话，象梦游人样昏暗、悲凉的境地里行进，照明的只有萤火虫闪烁的微光，难闻的血腥气味使他们的肺部感到很不舒服。

It will suggest that the way AI works does not, as currently argued, have even a tenuous link with how brains operate, but was actually a lucky guess.

它表明，人工智能的工作方式并不像目前人们所说的那样，与大脑的作方式有着微妙的联系，而实际上是幸的猜测。

The fate of Republican lawmakers in the East Coast suburbs could offer an early harbinger on election night of whether the party can maintain even a tenuous grip on the House.

东海岸郊区共和党议员选举之夜的命能够为共和党人是否能够哪怕以极小的优势掌控下议院提供个早期的预兆。

By 2016, the name's status in the top 100 names for boys was tenuous at best, and still trending downhill despite the best efforts of stars like Brandon Routh and Brandon Flowers.

到2016年，这个名字前100名男孩名字中的地位很不显眼，而且排名仍下滑，尽管布兰登·劳斯(Brandon Routh)和布兰登·弗劳尔斯(Brandon Flowers)等明星尽了最大的最大努力，但仍走下坡路。

Japan's later aggression helps explain the other surprise: that in many ways the links between Asian thinkers look more tenuous now than they did a century ago.

从很多方面看来，现亚洲思想家间联系比千年前的思想家们的联络都苍白无力。

After the Nazis took power in Germany and annexed Austria, the Sudetenland, and then occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia, Poland's geographic position became even more tenuous.

纳粹德国掌权后，吞并了奥地利、苏台德地区，然后又占领了捷克斯洛伐克的其他地区，波兰的地理位置变得更加脆弱。

Another area is basically for remote, isolated communities that have a very fragile and tenuous link to the main power grid.

另个地区基本上是有着与主电网非常脆弱的联系的偏远、孤立的社区。

Refugees in the top host countries including Uganda, Pakistan and Turkey live in harsh conditions and their status is tenuous.

包括乌干达、巴基斯坦和土耳其内的主要收容国的难民生活条件恶劣，他们的地位十分脆弱。

Although most emission nebulae look substantial, they're actually incredibly tenuous.

虽然大多数发射星云看起来很可观，但它们实际上非常稀薄。