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单词 viable
释义 vi·a·ble
I. \ˈvīəbəl\ adjective
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from vie life (from Latin vita) + -able — more at vital
1.
 a. : capable of living
  < the skin graft was viable >
  < viable cancer cells >
  < a viable infant >
 b. of a fetus : having attained such form and development of organs as to be normally capable of living outside the uterus
  < a 7-month viable fetus >
2. : capable of growing or developing
 < viable seeds >
 < viable eggs >
3. : affecting the imagination, mind, or senses as real, genuine, artistically whole, or important : living
 < make the life of industry and the city viable to the imagination — L.A.Fielder >
 < make viable for their students the great cultural heritage — J.W.Dodds >
 < the poet … is to make philosophic content more viable by addition of sensuous and emotional qualities — John Dewey >
4.
 a. : capable of being put into practice : workable
  < a viable middle road … between the grim alternatives of appeasement and all-out war — F.W.Riggs >
  < even brigands can make a viable agreement provided it embodies a common purpose — New Republic >
 b. : not self-contradictory : not lacking significance or consequences : capable of conceptual or aesthetic development
  < offers a viable alternative to other world views — J.W.Nixon >
  < anthropology is a viable science — E.A.Hoebel >
  < if skepticism is a viable enterprise — F.A.Olafson >
  < the novel is the only major art form that has come down to us from the nineteenth century in a viable condition — Arnold Hauser >
5. : capable of existence and development as a relatively independent social, economic, or political unit
 < adopted the politically and economically superior culture … and set about transforming it into a viable tropical civilization — Gilberto Freyre >
 < an artificial and hardly viable state — E.K.Lindley >
 < reapportioning the country into 14 large and viable states — Time >
vi·a·bly \-blē, -li\ adverb
II. adjective
: having a reasonable chance of succeeding
 < a viable candidate >
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