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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. 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. 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. 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. The heart of it stays the same: no way through.
組成im- (“not”) + pass + -able (“can be done”). So: cannot be passed.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
- 3
Not usable as legal tender.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。