not likely to be true or to happen 不大可能真实的（或发生的）；不大可能的 an improbable story 大概不是真实的故事 It all sounded highly improbable. 一切听上去很荒唐。 - improbable that…
It seems improbable that the current situation will continue. 当前的局势似乎不大可能继续下去。
Extra ExamplesThese new facts make the theory improbable. 这些新的事实使这一理论变得不可信了。 a wildly improbable idea 荒谬之极的想法
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seeming strange because it is not what you would expect 奇异的；荒谬的
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin improbabilis ‘hard to prove’, from in- ‘not’ + probabilis, from probare ‘to test, demonstrate’.