unreliability [
ˌʌnˌrilaiə'biliti]
n. 不可靠性(不安全性)
unreliability[ noun ]
the trait of not being dependable or reliable
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- Equally, if you choose to run a 30-year-old MGB or even a Morris Minor instead of a modern car, you need to know one end of a spanner from the other if you are not to be faced with (a) unreliability and (b) ruinous garage bills.
- Complaints last year by Army Col. R. Dennis Kerr about the Apache's unreliability in field exercises prompted Dingell's call for an investigation.
- The wine world is kicking up a stink about the unreliability of its traditional stopper. Modernists object to grappling with a corkscrew and a bit of bark.
- The apparently patchy performance of stores' groups is partly due to the unreliability of year on year comparisons.
- They, and Ma'ariv directors, point out that Maxwell's unreliability and love of publicity made him an improbable spy. Maxwell entirely failed to win over the prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, himself a former Mossad agent.
- Because of the unreliability, travel agents are discouraged from booking flights on airlines other than American and United, Texas Air contended.
- It is no good trying to explain the unreliability of criminal statistics to people who see their town centre close down at dusk, only to be threatened after dark by gangs of frightening-looking youths. Mr Heseltine was kind enough to give me a lift.
- But the chief reason for indifference was the unreliability of home sales data, and the fact that the big drop in October was offset by an upward revision for September.