Impracticable
[ɪm'præktɪkəb(ə)l] or [ɪm'præktɪkəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not capable of being carried out or put into practice; 'refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility'; 'a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances' .
編輯:路易斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.
(a.) Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.
(a.) Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.
校對:劳伦斯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Impossible, unfeasible, not practicable.[2]. Hard to deal with, hard to get along with.[3]. Impassable (as a road).
錄入:莫拉
同義詞及反義詞:
[See PRACTICABLE]
編輯:厄休拉
解釋/意思:
adj. not able to be done: unmanageable: stubborn.—ns. Imprac′ticability Imprac′ticableness.—adv. Imprac′ticably.
編輯:梅齐
例句/造句/用法:
- Is this ideal at all the worse for being impracticable? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I could only do this on foot, as the mass of ruin was impracticable for a horse. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Frantic and impracticable girl! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- By its means communication can be established between points where it is impracticable to extend wires. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Secession was illogical as well as impracticable; it was revolution. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At present it is impracticable. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But I felt she was a little impracticable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Professor Barlow's Demonstration that Telegraphy was Impracticable. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is painful, I allow, destructive, impracticable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When a professor says that socialism is impracticable he begs the question, for that amounts to assuming that the point at issue is already settled. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Marching across this country in the face of an enemy was impossible; navigating it proved equally impracticable. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I endeavoured therefore to sooth and soften her mind; and it was not until after many endeavours that I gave up the task as impracticable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He replied that it was impracticable, because the enemy had substantially the same line across the neck of land that General Butler had. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They found in practice that their plan of raising the plane like a kite was impracticable, and that the wind was not strong enough to support it at a proper angle. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It being impracticable to carry steam or the steam engine to the bottom of the mine for work there, compressed air is there employed, which is compressed by a steam engine up at the mouth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- To carry coal for fuel and water for steam would be impracticable for most motor cars. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit, and rendered a direct attack impracticable. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr. Thomson made the objection that it was impracticable, and that it would be impossible to supplant steam. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is quite obvious that such a system would be commercially impracticable where small units, similar to gas jets, were employed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But the circumstances under which she had regained her freedom rendered all recourse to such means as these simply impracticable. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It angered him to perceive that Rosamond's mind was wandering over impracticable wishes instead of facing possible efforts. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The plan was laughed at by many as impracticable, but it was attended with complete success. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I showed them my plans, and the unanimous decision of the engineers was that it was absolutely and utterly impracticable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
編輯:梅齐