improbable
/ɪmˈprɒbəbl/adjective
1- not likely to be true or to happen不大可能为真的, 不大可能发生的：
this account of events was seen by the jury as most improbable.
这一事件报告在陪审团看来极不可能是真的。
1.1
- unexpected and apparently inauthentic出乎意料的, 明显不真实的：
the characters have improbable names.
这些角色显然是用假名字。
派生词
improbability
noun （pl. -ies）improbably
adverb词源
late 16th cent.: from French， or from Latin improbabilis 'hard to prove'， from in- 'not' + probabilis （see PROBABLE）.