Inexorable
[ɪn'eks(ə)rəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'ɛksərəbl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.
編輯:玛杰里
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Unrelenting, relentless, implacable, pitiless, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, hard, cruel, not to be moved by entreaty.
克利奥校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Merciless, unrelenting, implacable, unalterable
ANT:Lenient, exorable, indulgent, benignant, clement
整理:辛克莱
解釋/意思:
adj. not to be moved by entreaty: unrelenting: unalterable.—ns. Inex′orableness Inexorabil′ity.—adv. Inex′orably.—Inexorable logic of facts Mazzini's phrase for the inexorable force of circumstances whose conclusions are beyond the reach of argument.
校對:南森
例句/造句/用法:
- All flashed indignant or appealing glances at the inexorable Davis, and one passionate lime lover burst into tears. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- New York was inexorable in its condemnation of business irregularities. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I never saw a more inexorable face in my life. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Holmes sat in a great, old-fashioned chair, his inexorable eyes gleaming out of his haggard face. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel gray, and glistening coldly with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Mr. van der Luyden supplied short ones on Opera nights; but they were so good that they made his guests deplore his inexorable punctuality. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I read an inexorable purpose in his gray eyes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Graham waxed inexorable on hearing the pleading tone; he took the scissors from his mother's work-basket. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Holmes's cold and inexorable manner showed the secretary that it was useless to argue with him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Diana Rivers had designated her brother inexorable as death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Not on no account,' replied the inexorable creditor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Leave me; I am inexorable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I mean into religious custody, of course; but she really did it as if she were an inexorable moral policeman carrying them all off to a station-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She gratefully thanked him but remained inexorable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
校對:南森