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Impracticability is the fact that a plan cannot really be carried out — not because the idea is silly in the mind, but because the real world gets in the way. There is not enough time, money, space, or people; the road is too narrow; the machine is too heavy to lift. You will see this long noun in careful writing: the impracticability of the scheme. In speech, most people just say it won’t work or there’s no way to do it. Though actually, English also has impracticality, and they are not quite twins. Impracticability asks “can we even do this?” Impracticality is more “is this a sensible way to live or work?” Students mix them, and even some native speakers do.
不可行、行不通(不是「不切實際」)
組成impracticable + -ability: the fact of being impracticable.
同家族的字
- impracticablethe adjective this noun is built from
- practicablethe positive form: able to be done
原始詞典資料2 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。
impracticabilitynoun
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The quality or condition of being impracticable.
- It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.
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An impracticable thing.
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。