tenuously

1. Another flaw with the VIE model is that the domestic Chinese company and the overseas-listed entity are technically not the same enterprise, and are only tenuously connected.
   VIE模式的另外一个缺陷是，中国境内公司和海外上市实体理论上讲不是同一家公司，只有一点关系。
2. Specifically, it may simply be the case that scientific concepts that conflict with naive intuition are simply learned more tenuously than concepts that are consistent with our intuition.
   具体来说，事实可能是这样，即科学概念与那些简单的无经验理论矛盾，与我们直觉一致的概念学习起来更加空洞无物。
3. His works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars.
   在一些学者的眼中，保存下来的他的作品是空洞无物的。

adv

1. in a tenuous manner
   1. his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars