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单词 implacable
释义 im·placa·ble
\(ˈ)im|plakəbəl, əmˈp- also -plāk-\ adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin implacabilis, from in- in- (I) + placabilis placable — more at placable
1.
 a. : not placable : not capable of being appeased or pacified : inexorable
  < an implacable enemy >
  < an implacable resentment >
  < single-minded and implacable, even unmerciful, in his servitude to the law — M.S.Mayer >
 b. : incapable of being significantly changed or modified : following a due unalterable course
  < the implacable lives of plants — Clifford Gessler >
  < the implacable logic of his career >
  < the measured, arranged, implacable movement of the universe — A.J.Cronin >
2. : incapable of being relieved or mitigated
 < an implacable disease >
 < the horns of an implacable dilemma — J.C.Powys >
 < his implacable interest in love — William McFee >
 < watched that implacable blaze of space as far as the mountainous horizon — D.C.Peattie >
im·placa·ble·ness \-bəlnə̇s\ noun
im·placa·bly \-blē, -bli\ adverb
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