He was unable to give a credible explanation for his behaviour.
他无法对自己的行为作出可信的解释。
Her excuse was barely credible.
她的借口无法让人信服。
credible threat/challenge/force etc
Can Thompson make a credible challenge for the party leadership?
汤普森是否能成功挑战该政党的领导权?
a credible alternative to nuclear power
原子能的可靠替代物
—crediblyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
credible• Once they began, they acquiredmomentum of their own, and the size of the purge made it credible.• This means, do I think you are competent and credible.• But how much longer he can survive as a credible force is open to question.• The complaint would be more credible if he could remember more specificdetails.• The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously.• Her story is completely credible - she doesn't usually exaggerate.• Is she a crediblewitness?
credible explanation/story/account etc• The first two of these little surprises, just possibly, have credible explanations.• Money was invested in virtually any company with a credible story of what they were going to do on the internet.
Origincredible
(1300-1400)Latincredibilis, from credere; → CREDENCE
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤appear, be, seem看上去可信;可信;顯得可信▸➤become變得可信▸➤make sth使⋯可信▸➤find sth認為⋯可信◇I'm not sure that I find her story credible.我不能確定她的敍述是否可信。ADVERB➤highly, very高度/非常可信▸➤completely, fully, quite完全/十分/相當可信◇You need imagination to make what you write fully credible.要使你寫的東西完全可信需要具有想像力。➤barely, hardly, scarcely (especially BrE) 幾乎不可信◇It seems hardly credible that anyone could have walked so far in a day.一個人能在一天之內走那麼遠,令人難以相信。