单词 | unreliable |
释义 | unreliable (ʌnrɪlaɪəbəl ) adjective B2 If you describe a person, machine, or method as unreliable, you mean that you cannot trust them. Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information. His judgement was unreliable. He had an unreliable car. unreliability (ʌnrɪlaɪəbɪlɪti ) uncountable noun ...his lateness and unreliability. Collocations: completely unreliable Surely it is widely known that lie detectors are completely unreliable quack science, and simply don't work. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It's a phantom study that is completely unreliable. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He was always great fun but completely unreliable. The Sun (2014) It had come from her and was completely unreliable! Times, Sunday Times (2009) Absent or unreliable evidence allows plenty of room for differences of interpretation. The Times Literary Supplement Although the defence claimed this was unreliable evidence, the judge ruled it admissible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He found that no newspaper would print the story on largely uncorroborated and unreliable evidence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet revelation turns out to be a highly unreliable guide. Times, Sunday Times Symptoms reported by the patient are often an unreliable guide to the underlying dysfunction of the lower urinary tract. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both can prove unreliable guides to what will happen next. Times, Sunday Times Various inaccurate or simply wrong claims in the text make it an unreliable source. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Another similarly unreliable source counts 50.000 volumes or fewer for the year 1839. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wind may be considered an unreliable source of electricity due to its intermittent nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The slow-growing nature of the fungus (7-10 years minimum) and because it can not be cultivated without losing most of its properties make this an unreliable source, though. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His many critics say he has turned from the evidence-based reporting that made him famous towards unsubstantiated conspiracies based on unreliable sources. Times, Sunday Times He cast himself as an unreliable witness and as a master of disloyalty. The Sun Indeed, the judge described his sworn evidence as being 'deliberately dishonest' and added that he was an 'inherently unreliable witness who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept'. Times, Sunday Times I am, in short, an unreliable witness. Times, Sunday Times Another unreliable witness was lying about a bus route. Times, Sunday Times She dismissed him as an 'inherently unreliable witness who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to his current purposes'. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 不可靠的 Japanese: あてにならない |
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