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单词 intractable
释义
intractablein‧trac‧ta‧ble /ɪnˈtræktəbəl/ adjective formal Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • intractable enemies
  • Even rich nations often have intractable poverty.
  • The disposal of toxic wastes is one of the most intractable problems facing industrialized societies.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatornot solved or difficult to solve
an unresolved problem still exists because it has not been dealt with successfully: · A number of problems are still unresolved.· The design of the new shopping mall is almost complete, although there are still some unresolved difficulties.
formal an insoluble problem is very difficult or impossible to solve: · The government has to deal with what seems like an insoluble political problem -- racial harmony within the community.· The cleaning-up operation after the oil spill will be difficult but not insoluble.
formal an intractable problem is one that is so difficult and complicated that it is impossible to solve it however hard you try: · The disposal of toxic wastes is one of the most intractable problems facing industrialized societies.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=seeming to be impossible deal with)· Unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared.· Economic disparities grow ever greater and more intractable.· Elsewhere the problems are far more intractable.· Taking the discussion one step further to the reduction of inequalities in outcome, one is faced with even more intractable problems.· However, behind the tendencies we have charted lurks a more intractable problem, that of curriculum expertise.· Tony's learning difficulties and in particular his own attitude to them, proved more intractable.· The third criticism, however, seems more intractable.· But where a disease is contracted by the defendant, more intractable difficulties arise.
· It has been and remains the most intractable problem of world diplomacy.· But perhaps the most intractable obstacle to mass college attendance was the elite character of the college itself.· But the most intractable problem in Baia Mare is not smoke but dust.· His first was the development of submerged combustion, which enabled the most intractable liquids to be heated without expensive constructions.· From him even the most intractable pages stir with revolutionary fervour.· These theoretical problems are most visible and at their most intractable in the area of fostering and adoption policy.
· Even more seemingly intractable problems will be posed by attempts to store virtual reality.· Although here, too, Chicago had fared better than many older cities, unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.· It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions.· Do not concern yourself with this seemingly intractable problem.· It should be one which presents a seemingly intractable problem.· What he was really saying, though, is that we face seemingly intractable problems and that the solutions will be difficult.· But remember: you have to believe that the seemingly intractable problem can be cracked.
NOUN
· It has been and remains the most intractable problem of world diplomacy.· Taking the discussion one step further to the reduction of inequalities in outcome, one is faced with even more intractable problems.· It was a breathtakingly audacious solution to an intractable problem, and the results were to be breathtaking as well.· However, behind the tendencies we have charted lurks a more intractable problem, that of curriculum expertise.· Although here, too, Chicago had fared better than many older cities, unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.· As a result, their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement.· For understandable reasons, Toyota wanted no part of the Fremont location and its history of intractable problems.
1an intractable problem is very difficult to deal with or solve:  the seemingly intractable problem of human greed2having a strong will and difficult to controlintractability /ɪnˌtræktəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable]
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