“That’s an indefensible lie,” brother Jack said

“这是漏洞百出的谎言，”杰克兄弟说。

indefensible behaviour

不可原谅的行为.

an indefensible position

不能防御的阵地.

A move that constitutes an inescapable and indefensible attack on a chess opponent’s king.

将死国际象棋中的一着，攻击对手的国王使之无法逃脱或抵抗

To opt out at the critical moment would be quite indefensible .

在关键时刻置身事外的做法是决不不能原谅的。

an indefensible argument

站不住脚的论点.

It is indefensible as a sport

作为一种运动，这是站不住脚的。

||1:The New York Times decided to end political cartoons in its international edition, following the publication in April of a “clearly anti-Semitic and indefensible ” caricature of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, as a dog leading a yarmulke-wearing Mr Trump.||2:Presumably if the paper ever publishes a reprehensible article, it will thereafter have to distribute only blank pages.

||1:《纽约时报》决定停刊其国际版面发表的政治漫画，今年4月，该报刊登了一幅“赤裸裸的反犹太”的漫画，将以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚画成一只导盲犬，被戴着小圆帽的特朗普牵着。||2:据推测，如果该报纸曾发表过应受谴责的文章，那么以后它只能发布空白页。

In the long run, stability depends on Pakistan ending its indefensible support for terrorism. Its prime minister, Imran Khan, is urging dialogue and, in a promising gesture, was due to release India’s pilot—presumably with the approval of the army chief, who calls the shots on matters of security.

从长远来看，稳定取决于巴基斯坦结束对恐怖主义的站不住脚的支持。印度总理伊姆兰·汗以充满希望的姿态敦促双方进行对话，并将释放印度飞行员。这大概是得到了负责在安全问题上发号施令的军方首脑的批准。

Those lines, he said, are “indefensible .” He says an Israeli withdrawal from some of the areas gained during the Six-Day War would leave major Jewish settlements in the West Bank outside of Israel.

他表示，那些边境线是“站不住脚的。”他说，如果以色列从6日战争期间占领地区撤回，将会导致约旦河以西的犹太人主要定居点位于以色列边境以外。

David Cameron has proved adept, in dealing with historical issues arising from the conflict in Northern Ireland, at employing the simple but effective tactic of declining to defend the indefensible . His handsome and forthright apology over the Bloody Sunday killings by British forces in 1972 earned him much kudos in Ireland.

在处理由北爱尔兰的争端引起的历史议题时，大卫·卡梅隆证明自己擅长使用简单而不是强词夺理的有效策略。他关于英国军方在1972年造成的“血腥星期日”的深刻而坦率的道歉令他在爱尔兰备受赞誉。

AIG’s bonuses prompted fury from the White House downwards, with critics blasting it as an indefensible case of rewarding failure.

AIG巨额奖金事件可谓一石激起千层浪，上至白宫下至平民百姓都愤慨不已，指责AIG犯了一个彻底的错误。

But Dr Fox has described that method as “intellectually indefensible and strategically dangerous” .

但福克斯博士曾形容这种方法为“智力上站不住脚和战略上危险”。

If so, aren’t all international adoptions of social orphans morally indefensible ?

假如是这样的话，是不是所有这些社会孤儿的跨国收养行为，在道德上都是站不住脚的呢？

Lawyers for Mosley told the court that News of the World was guilty of “a gross and indefensible intrusion of his private life” .

莫斯利的律师向法庭陈述说，《世界新闻报》“显而易见且毫无疑问的干涉了莫斯利的私生活。”

The 1967 border, he said, was “indefensible ” ; Israel at its narrowest point, pre-1967, was only “nine miles wide” .

内塔尼亚胡总理说，1967年的边界协定是“无法成立的”。在1967年以前，以色列最窄的地方只有“9英里宽”。

Those lines, he said, are “indefensible . ”

他表示，那些边境线是“站不住脚的。”

The way they squabble mulishly to defend now-indefensible positions is itself evidence of how flawed those rational-actor models are.

他们现在的理论已站不住脚，但却依旧倔强地吵着维护，用自身来证明这些理性行为者模式的缺陷在哪里。

His one conceit is a corporate jet, but that is second-hand and named “The Indefensible ” .

唯一能表明他奢侈的是一架公务机，然而却是二手货，该公务机被命名为“无可辩护”。

I replied, I agree with what he said . . . I made a bad mistake, it was indefensible , and I’m sorry about it.

我回答说：“我同意他的说法……我犯了个糟糕的错误，不可原谅，我非常抱歉。”

It is not just that western support for autocracy and indulgence of the corruption of Arab rulers is morally indefensible .

西方对威权政府的支持、对阿拉伯统治者腐败的纵容，在道义上是站不住脚的。

Israel will not return to the indefensible lines of 1967.

以色列不会回到1967年的那个不能进行自我防御的边界。

On the Israeli left, the Gaza siege has long been seen both as impolitic and morally indefensible .

以色列左翼分子长期以来一直认为围困加沙是不可取的，同时在道义上也在站不住脚的。

In this case, the indefensible theft of legally made films has led to the regrettable loss of O2 customers’ privacy.

在这一案例中，本就站不住脚的电影盗版导致O2公司可悲的出卖了其客户隐私。

It was neither here nor there, however: Mr Madoff’s conduct was ultimately indefensible and he deserved what he got.

这并不重要，但是，马多夫先生的行为最终是别人无法为他辩护的，他罪有应得。

This is indefensible , and because we tolerate it, we don’t know the true effect sizes of the medicines that we give.

这个太没道理了。因为我们的容忍，导致我们根本不知道服用药物的真实效果是什么。