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Impenetrable means impossible to get through — a wall, a forest so thick you cannot walk into it, a defence nobody can break. It is also used about ideas and writing: an impenetrable book is one you cannot understand, however hard you try.
無法穿透的;(引申)難以理解的
組成im- (not) + penetrate (get through) + -able (able to be).
同家族的字
- penetratethe verb inside it
原始詞典資料4 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。
impenetrableadj/ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/
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Not penetrable.
- The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
- The avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
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Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent.
- When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
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Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable.
- Business jargon makes this document impenetrable—I can’t understand it.
impenetrablenoun/ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/
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A person not openly given to friendship.
- I should lose the reputation that I am gradually acquiring among our impenetrables here, were I to confess the excitement which I felt at the idea of entering his house—the house of that great general under whose command you made your first charge.
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。