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单词 impregnable
释义
impregnableim‧preg‧na‧ble /ɪmˈpreɡnəbəl/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINimpregnable
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French imprenable ‘impossible to capture’, from prendre ‘to take’
Examples
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  • And Andrus would be untouched, impregnable behind his rigid simplicities.
  • Grant was still mired in the mud before impregnable Vicksburg.
  • Occupying fairly impregnable clifftop villages, they prospered in the practice of agriculture.
  • Subject, verb, object: the unadorned, impregnable sentence.
  • The case Starr builds must be as impregnable as Fort Knox.
  • The conventional wisdom having been made more or less identical with sound scholarship, its position is virtually impregnable.
  • The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable.
  • The problem invariably is that the enemy is simply inflexible or impregnable.
1a building that is impregnable is so strong that it cannot be entered by force:  an impregnable fortress2strong and impossible to change or influence:  her impregnable obstinacy
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