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A road, path, river, or stretch of land that is impassable is impossible to travel along or through. You cannot get past.
A road, path, river, or stretch of land that is impassable一條路、一條小徑、一條河,或一片土地,如果是impassable is impossible to travel along or through就是沒辦法沿著走或穿過去 You cannot get past你過不去
Snow, flood water, fallen trees, mud, or a rockslide can make a mountain road impassable. The word is about movement of people or vehicles: the way is blocked, too deep, too steep, or too broken.
Snow, flood water, fallen trees, mud, or a rockslide積雪、洪水、倒下的樹、爛泥,或是山崩落石 can make a mountain road impassable都可能讓一條山路變得無法通行 The word is about movement of people or vehicles這個字講的是人或車輛能不能通行 the way is blocked, too deep, too steep, or too broken路被擋住了、太深、太陡,或壞得太嚴重
It is a fairly ordinary news-and-travel word; you hear it after storms. It does not mean the journey is a bad idea, or that the place is forbidden — it means you physically cannot go that way, at least not now.
It is a fairly ordinary news-and-travel word這是新聞和旅遊報導裡很常見的字 you hear it after storms暴風雨過後常常會聽到 It does not mean the journey is a bad idea它不是說這趟路不值得走 or that the place is forbidden也不是說那個地方禁止進入 it means you physically cannot go that way而是說你實際上就是走不了那條路 at least not now至少現在不行
A road can be impassable today and open again tomorrow, once the water goes down. People sometimes stretch it a little to a crowd or a forest so thick you cannot push through.
A road can be impassable today and open again tomorrow一條路今天可能無法通行,明天又通了 once the water goes down只要水退了就好 People sometimes stretch it a little to a crowd有時候大家也會把這個字用寬一點,講一群人潮 or a forest so thick you cannot push through或是一片密到擠不過去的森林
The heart of it stays the same: no way through.
The heart of it stays the same核心意思都一樣 no way through就是過不去
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impassableadj/ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
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Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
- At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
- [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
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Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
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Not usable as legal tender.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。