Incurable
[ɪn'kjʊərəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'kjʊrəbl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person whose disease is incurable.
(adj.) unalterable in disposition or habits; 'an incurable optimist' .
(adj.) incapable of being cured; 'an incurable disease'; 'an incurable addiction to smoking' .
手打:奥斯伯特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
(a.) Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
(n.) A person diseased beyond cure.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Irremediable, incorrigible, remediless, hopeless, irreparable, irretrievable, irremedicable, past cure, past mending.
亚历山大校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Irremediable, irredeemable
ANT:Tractable, removable, remediable
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解釋/意思:
adj. not admitting of cure or correction.—n. one beyond cure.—ns. Incur′ableness Incurabil′ity.—adv. Incur′ably.
編輯:马克斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I inquired, fancying that I had discovered in the incurable grief of bereavement, a key to that same aged lady's desperate ill-humour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Disorders of the heart are incurable. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But the water decomposed, and the incurable defect was still there. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- His father, Sir Felix Glyde, had suffered from his birth under a painful and incurable deformity, and had shunned all society from his earliest years. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Unfortunately, he did not reason in this way, but, feeling that he was miserable, hastily decided that such misery was incurable. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Well, perhaps,' said Sam, 'you bought houses, wich is delicate English for goin' mad; or took to buildin', wich is a medical term for bein' incurable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- All her virtues and all her defects tended to make the blow incurable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She was sinking under a painful and incurable disease, and wished to recover him before she died. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- For ten years past I have suffered from an incurable internal complaint. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Blind to the constitutional defects that were incurable, she had her eyes wide open to the acquired habits that were susceptible of remedy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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