unreliable
靠不住
definition
adjective
he's lazy and unreliable
not able to be relied upon.
translation of 'unreliable'
adjective
靠不住
example
My body feels older somehow, like a battered and slightly 'unreliable' car.
However, sundials are a surprisingly 'unreliable' means of telling the time.
What a pity that Ms Evans' information comes from such an 'unreliable' source.
The traders had complained the system was 'unreliable' and said they had no proof that it had discouraged crime.
The evidence for them was far too 'unreliable' to have any credibility.
Dozens of patients had their operations postponed because of the 'unreliable' operating tables.
But worst of all the judge's ruling makes a martyr out of a thoroughly 'unreliable' journalist.
It is difficult to blame people for spending holidays abroad, when the weather here is so 'unreliable' .
that clock is 'unreliable'
Then, it was accepted that a new car would be 'unreliable' and poorly made.
The July meeting which should have been held in a garden was again inside due to the 'unreliable' summer weather.
It says the numbers would be too 'unreliable' because relatives would not contact them if their loved ones had been found.
Research has shown, however, that recall is 'unreliable' and rife with inaccuracies and biases.
Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or 'unreliable' and seldom committed to writing.
The Railtrack work has to continue, and that makes for 'unreliable' timetables.
These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and 'unreliable' .
For we will not be able to continue if we are unaffordable, or 'unreliable' in broad terms.
By contrast the state markets were 'unreliable' with regard to delivery times, quality, and choice.
an 'unreliable' witness
But word of mouth is often 'unreliable' and by the time they reached town, all supplies had run out.
A few curse the memory of them as clunky, unstable, slow, 'unreliable' and inherently unsafe.
she's 'unreliable'
The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as 'unreliable' witnesses.
First, data on law firm clientele are sporadically and 'unreliably' available.
The delays and 'unreliability' caused by the problem costs UK industry, and thus the consumer, around £20 billion a year.
Therefore, many of the missiles crashed or performed 'unreliably' .
Miller is a first-rate intellectual but an 'unreliably' quirky, quixotically overcerebral, hit-or-miss director.
But another part of me likes having a backup network, one that I can reach, if 'unreliably' , from across the street.
The average wind turbine produces less electricity in a year than the average family car: they produce high - cost electricity 'unreliably' .
The problem, if it turns out to be chronic, could afflict all its power stations, increasing 'unreliability' and, at worst, meaning they have to be shut down early.
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