There is, to date, only the flimsiest of publicly-funded health care and pension systems, which increases incentives for individuals to save while they are working.

迄今为止，只存在最薄弱的公共资助医疗和养老金系统，这加强了人们在工作时储蓄的动机。

In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how have Japan's tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings—500 or so wooden pagodas—remained standing for centuries?

在这片被台风席卷、被地震撼动的土地上，日本最高、看似最脆弱的老建筑——约500座木制宝塔——是如何屹立了几个世纪的？

All his friends and relatives declined with the flimsiest of excuses.

他的所有朋友和亲人都用最没有说服力的借口拒绝了他。

But beneath the disinfectant smell, the unmistakable odor of fish lingered as the flimsiest calling card of a former tenant.

但是，消毒剂的味道下，难以掩盖的鱼腥味宣告着前租户的身份。

Miss Moneypenny: That's the flimsiest excuse you've ever given me. Oh, well, some girls have all the luck. Who is she, James?

彭妮：这是你给过我的最浅薄的理由。那幺好吧，一些女孩走运了。她是谁，詹姆斯？

Of its 48 countries, the 28 in central and eastern Africa are connected to the web by only the flimsiest of satellite technology.

在48个非洲国家中，只有28个中非和东非国家运用着极不成熟的卫星技术同互联网相连接。

Prosecutors conducted trial by press conference, denouncing victims live on television on what often seemed the flimsiest of grounds.

检察官纷纷借助新闻发布会处理案件，通过电视直播指责受害人，理由常常看起来站不住脚。

To the student of literature as such, the flimsiest sentiment or the merest paradox aptly put is worth the sublimest truth ill expressed.

对于学习这样的文学的人来说，即使是最脆弱的情感或最站不住脚的悖论也得到了恰当的表达，它们都是值得圈点的伟大真理。

Prosecutors conducted trial by press conference, denouncing victims on live television on what often seemed the flimsiest and most political of grounds.

检察官在新闻发布会上进行审讯，通过电视直播以根本不可信和对国家非常有害为由公开谴责受害人。

Even the flimsiest of science fiction or the nastiest of horror stories or the most intricate of spy novels USES this as the mortar to bond together its narrative.

即便是最天花乱坠的科幻小说、最荒唐无稽的恐怖小说和最错综复杂的间谍小说也都用这些元素作为粘合叙述的灰泥。