- 1毫不妥協的；難以安撫的
If a person, a feeling, or a force is implacable, it will not . You cannot calm it, buy it off, or wait it out. An implacable enemy keeps coming. Implausible hatred — no: implacable hatred — does not fade because you said you were sorry. It is a strong, rather literary word. News writers like “implacable opposition.” Though actually, it does not only describe people: a storm, a disease, or “implacable logic” can wear the word too, meaning nothing you do will change its course. It is not the same as being angry for a minute. The point is that the opposition does not melt. Formal, but you will see it in serious articles.
組成From Latin implācābilis: im- (not) + plācābilis (able to be calmed), from plācō (to calm, to make peace with) + -bilis (able to be). So: not able to be calmed. English took it through Middle English and Old French implacable.
同家族的字
- implacabilitythe noun: the quality of being implacable
- implacablythe adverb from this adjective
- placateto calm someone; from the same Latin plācō, “to make peace with”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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。
implacableadj/ɪmˈplækəb(ə)l/
- 1
Not able to be placated or appeased.
- He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
- [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
- 2
Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
- The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.
- 3
Adamant; immovable.
- Indeed Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood.
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