| 单词 | incapable |
| 释义 | incapable (ɪnkeɪpəbəl ) 1. adjective Someone who is incapable of doing something is unable to do it. She seemed incapable of taking decisions. [+ of] He was a man incapable of violence. 2. adjective An incapable person is weak or stupid. He lost his job for allegedly being incapable. Synonyms: incompetent, inadequate, insufficient, unfit Collocations: physically incapable Despite this he carried on working until 2003, using assistants to carry out the tasks he was physically incapable of. Times, Sunday Times For an enchanted period, you are physically incapable of doing anything wrong. Times, Sunday Times You are more or less physically incapable of restoring a relationship of trust. Times, Sunday Times I was physically incapable of writing three-hour examination papers. Times, Sunday Times He seems physically incapable of keeping his mouth shut. Times, Sunday Times I was simply incapable of communicating with hairdressers. Times, Sunday Times Some struggled to feed themselves but others were simply incapable of eating the food put in front of them. Times, Sunday Times These people are simply incapable of divorcing an appreciation of him as a manager from an objective appraisal of his personal defects. Times, Sunday Times The world's leading physiologists have tried everything - microsurgery, crowbars - but her lips are simply incapable of bending upwards. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps he was simply incapable of extricating himself from the difficulties of the situation. The Times Literary Supplement She will be in shock and totally incapable of making the decision of whether she wanted to get up there. The Sun A shocked person might seem dazed, disorientated and totally incapable of making decisions. Times, Sunday Times The young of hole-nesters, on the other hand, are often totally incapable of unassisted survival. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Married men can avoid the full impact of the double burden but single fathers are totally incapable of avoiding the double burden of family and work. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Up to this point, rail systems had used either wooden rails, which were totally incapable of supporting steam engines, or cast iron rails typically only 3 feet in length. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The nasty neural affl iction also turned him into human cargo, utterly incapable of looking after himself. Times, Sunday Times But she seems utterly incapable of letting any traces of fame go to her head. The Sun That made me colder and utterly incapable of facing my emotional problems. Times, Sunday Times It's not often a team can score three times and yet for large parts look utterly incapable of stringing together an attack. Times, Sunday Times Whenever a contestant takes the game seriously, he/she proves utterly incapable of supplying a correct response. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 无能力的 Japanese: 無能な |
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