Inability
[ɪnə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [,ɪnə'bɪləti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) lacking the power to perform.
(noun.) lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something.
德斯蒙德錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
校對:维多利亚
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Incapacity, incapability, impotence, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, want of power, want of capacity.[2]. Disability, disqualification.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See ABILITY]
編輯:娜塔莎
解釋/意思:
n. want of sufficient power: incapacity.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Left to herself, Gerty mused distressfully upon her friend's plight, and her own inability to relieve it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It seems as if he must go mad in the necessity he feels for haste and the inability under which he labours of expressing to do what or to fetch whom. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It's a mistake due to poverty of imagination and inability to learn from experience. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- When this is done, it is generally the effect of fraud, and not of inability; and the longest apprenticeship can give no security against fraud. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The weight, therefore, of an independent empire, which you seem certain of our inability to bear, will not be so great as you imagine. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Most of us have at times been annoyed by the inability to secure water on an upper story, because of the drawing off of a supply on a lower floor. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There was no expression of surprise, no assumption of an inability to understand his meaning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Calling on his nearest friend the next morning for even a pair of suspenders, Mr. Andrews was met with regrets of inability, because the burglars had also been there. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was a most affectionate letter, and expressed great and true regret for his inability to attend. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The wound, and consequent inability of Argyropylo, caused Raymond to be the first in command. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The weakness I have suggested is one that all statesmen share in some degree: an inability to interpret adequately the world they govern. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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