Inflexible
[ɪn'fleksɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn'flɛksəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) resistant to being bent; 'an inflexible iron bar'; 'an inflexible knife blade'; .
(adj.) incapable of change; 'a man of inflexible purpose' .
(adj.) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; 'a rigid disciplinarian'; 'an inflexible law'; 'an unbending will to dominate' .
本校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
(a.) Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn.
(a.) Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable.
杰克校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Stiff, rigid.[2]. Pertinacious, dogged, stubborn, obstinate, unyielding, refractory, headstrong, wilful, cantankerous, intractable, heady, obdurate, cross-grained.[3]. Firm, resolute, steadfast, immovable, persevering.
卡特編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See FLEXIBLE]
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例句/造句/用法:
- Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I should not like to have to bargain with him; he looks very inflexible. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- In the midst of this intemperate riot, Attila alone, without change of countenance, maintained his steadfast and inflexible gravity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Yet, in latter days, illness had taken from my poor girl the full outline of her face, and reduced it to the inflexible shape of the bone beneath. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I have been a child of battle from my youth upward, high in my views, steady and inflexible in pursuing them. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- These ideas made him inflexible in his rule, and violent in his hate of any who presumed to share with him his usurped empire. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- By your visiting proposition,' said Bounderby, with an inflexible jerk of the hayfield. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- We cannot be sure that any natures, however inflexible or peculiar, will resist this effect from a more massive being than their own. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The rebellious spirit of Tom Paine expressed itself in logical formul? as inflexible to the pace of life as did the more contented Hamilton's. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The entreaties to remain were pressing, but Mr. Pickwick was inflexible. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If she were to continue inflexible in the line of conduct she now pursued, they must part. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Such an inflexible little woman, too, through all! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Here the honest but inflexible servant clapped the door to and bolted it within. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- To London, ma'am,' resumed the inflexible beadle, 'by coach. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Calls me proud and inflexible in this breath! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Ingenious reasoning, refined and subtile consultation, were in him combined with prompt resolution and inflexible firmness of purpose. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Such must I remain--proud, inflexible, and unchanging; and of this the world shall have proof. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It was her act, and she kept its motives in her inflexible heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She tried to reason with him, and finding him inflexible, learned to hate him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- His tradition is a high one; he is often a man of exceptional quality, but the system is unimaginative and inflexible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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