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tentatively

/ten-tuh-tiv-lee/US // ˈtɛn tə tɪv li //

暂定,暂时的,暂时性的,暂定的

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : as a trial, experiment, or attempt: Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for the 8th of June.
    • : in a hesitant or uncertain manner: She spoke tentatively, but apparently thought better of it and stopped.

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Examples

  • A Superior Court has tentatively sided with the county in that case, but the judge then sought more information from both parties.

  • The Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership will be housed on campus, tentatively in the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library, Dawuni said.

  • The plan tentatively agreed to by the Montgomery County Board of Education is a step toward returning children to bricks-and-mortar schools, at least part time, amid the pandemic.

  • Even if this fresh lockdown only lasts a month, as is tentatively planned, that will be tricky in the Berlin winter.

  • In the past eight days alone, four important swing states have tentatively extended the deadline by which mail ballots must be received.

  • Three decades later, the EEGs of distance-separated twins were studied and tentatively found to correlate.

  • Police tentatively identified the other woman but did not immediately release her name.

  • The efforts are proceeding slowly and tentatively because the price differential of the fuel is only one factor to consider.

  • He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic.

  • He got a job as a cook in a local hotel, which was reportedly haunted, and began tentatively to put down roots.

  • We next arranged tentatively for a brick veranda with a pergola top on the southern end of the house, and then went upstairs.

  • Stella suggested tentatively a tiny Japanese moon bridge above the pool, but I would have none of it.

  • "I mean, I never had a fixed and definite idea that I proceeded to apply, as you have done," she explained tentatively.

  • Tentatively he pulled at the container cover, it was as firm as if it had been welded on.

  • Tentatively, he pushed a slide he remembered touching before.