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1 However, waiting too late in the season, as I learned on a subsequent trip to the Italian Dolomites in March, can make the Alps an iffy proposition, too.

2 I tend to rely more on what science has to say about the natural world than anything else, and the research behind crystals’ purported healing abilities is iffy, to say the least.

3 But the chance that — or, for that matter, The Expendables or Eat Pray Love — can grow its audience is an iffy proposition.

4 The results are iffy — a lot of compelling work and some piercing curatorial insights but shrouded beneath old-fashioned parochialism.

5 It was an iffy case to win.

这是一件不确定胜利的案件。

6 But the film smartly navigates the iffy steps its characters take.

7 Money management to keep bets small on iffy hands and double up on strong hands.

理，在牌不好时下较小的注，而在牌好时加倍下注。

8 That, plus iffy weather, an indie budget, and an underage lead actor with restricted work hours, made the whole thing a logistical feat.

9 Obviously, but one for a good cause: North Pennine Ferret Welfare which combines the rescue of maltreated or unwanted pets with working to change the animals' somewhat iffy image.

10 The orchestra sounded good, but balances and rhythmic precision in the Beethoven were iffy.

11 Gut feelings about what the public wants are too mysterious and too iffy.

12 And since the whole thing contained approximately zero jokes, the “Comedy” part was a bit iffy, too.

13 A small pack is useful for things such as a phone, camera, snacks, sunscreen, a towel for beach detours and a windbreaker if the weather’s iffy.

14 So there's no doubt the music will be heard in the sometimes iffy acoustics of the 6,500-seat Royal Albert, but what about the musical itself?

15 Even in the higher altitudes of the opera house, tickets are still quite expensive — especially when it comes to enticing new generations who may be iffy on the whole idea of giving opera a try.

16 And that was 2020 for you, too: accepting the increasingly obvious reality that the country was in peril, built on iffy foundations that now buckled under pressure.

17 A similar problem arises when we use iffy language to talk about the past.

18 I was iffy on the Amia storyline but powered through.

19 Nairobi has iffy security and few comforts.

内罗毕的安全和舒适度实在不敢恭维。

20 He likens the band’s iffy future to a lit fuse on a bomb.

1 不确定的

uncertain vague doubtful dubious indeterminate dicey chancy touch-and-go questionable borderline tentative indefinite dodgy sneaking be in doubt open to doubt precarious inconclusive changeable imprecise indistinct ill-defined changeful unassured

2 有条件的

qualified conditioned

3 假设性的

iffish

4 未确定

unascertained suspensive up in the air

5 不肯定的

unsure unclear

6 不太可能发生的

dim

7 可疑

suspect funny suspicious problematic questionable doubtful dubious queer shaky left-handed fishy arguable equivocal problematical suspectable dubitable questionably dubiously doubtfully doubt queerness doubtfulness uncertain unfounded conjectural suspected shady flimsy apocryphal suspiciously alleged greasy distrustful iffish hincty dubitative

8 不确定

uncertain vague doubtful dubious indeterminate dicey chancy touch-and-go question confusion uncertainty questionable borderline tentative indefinite dodgy sneaking hover be in doubt open to doubt be on shaky ground precarious inconclusive changeable imprecise indistinct ill-defined changeful unassured indeterminacy indefiniteness inconclusiveness indetermination indistinction falter indeterminacy principle

9 可疑的

suspect funny suspicious problematic questionable doubtful dubious queer shaky left-handed fishy arguable equivocal problematical suspectable dubitable hinky murky shady uncertain unfounded conjectural suss untrusting suspected flimsy apocryphal alleged greasy distrustful iffish hincty dubitative

10 不肯定

unsure unclear incertitude

11 有问题的

buggy difficult questionable doubtful problematic debatable problem

12 不够好的

unsatisfactory

13 不安定

wild liquid adolescent volatile precarious unsettled imbalanced restive yeasty vertiginous unquiet precariously changefully imbalance fluctuation destabilisation unsettle destabilize built on sand

14 有待确定的

iffish

15 不完美的

faulty imperfect

16 不安定的

wild liquid adolescent volatile precarious unsettled imbalanced restive yeasty vertiginous unquiet built on sand

17 未确定的

unascertained suspensive undetermined unestablished open to dispute open-ended unspecified

18 可怀疑的

in doubt

19 未定的

doubtful

20 不够好

unsatisfactory not cut the mustard not up to the mark

21 偶然性

accident haphazard eventuality fortuity circumstantiality

22 问题多的

problem iffish