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improbably

/im-prob-uh-buhl/US // ɪmˈprɒb ə bəl //UK // (ɪmˈprɒbəbəl) //

不大可能,不可能,不可能的,不可能的事

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen: Rain is improbable tonight.

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Examples

  • Local leaders set an improbable goal in the face of that challenge.

  • Robinette started snapping photos of the improbable reunion and shared them on Facebook.

  • The Bills stuffed it, and the clock ran down to six seconds, turning an improbable comeback to impossible.

  • Washington’s odds are still long — Football Outsiders and FiveThirtyEight give it the worst chance of the division’s four teams of winning the title — but this is a surreal, improbable season.

  • Who knows how long Smith can continue his most improbable of comebacks.

  • A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.

  • Mitch McConnell even has an improbably tight race on his hands in Kentucky against Alison Lundergan Grimes.

  • Improbably, Sharknado had become the social media version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

  • America owes an improbably large thank you to Howard for leading us.

  • More than a dozen times he rescued the U.S. from the Belgian onslaught, improbably blocking shot after shot.

  • Not improbably it was simply fear, the result of ignorance of their nature and absence of social relations with them.

  • It not improbably represents the tutelary goddess of Ilium, whose temple, as we know, stood in the Pergamus.

  • And for some time nothing occurred to shake Jack's opinion that not improbably the new master was better than his looks.

  • The word cockney is not improbably derived from cocayne, the name of an imaginary land of ease and jollity.

  • At any rate he has a very strong anticipation of Defoe, whose "Cavalier" was not improbably suggested by him.