| 释义 |
non-ˈviable, a.
[non- 3.]
Not viable; spec. (a) of living beings or living matter: = inviable a.; (b) not economically viable.
1879Premature Death 61 The liability to give birth to immature and non⁓viable children. 1946Nature 9 Nov. 678/1 The cells become non-viable. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 204 The wall, which now divides the ancient city from the new, the non-viable state of Jordan from the non-viable state of Israel. 1959Times 6 Mar. 11/5 Her Majesty's Government..is struggling..to build up a primitive people in a non-viable country to a point where they may one day hope to achieve a genuine form of democracy. 1959Economist 18 Apr. 218/1 Agricultural policy is belatedly growing more rational, which means tougher towards the ‘non-viable’ farm. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxvii. 385 Producing a new version that is not a non-viable freak. 1974Nature 1 Nov. 64/2 The consideration that cells defective for such processes should be non-viable. |