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When someone does something incorrigibly, they keep doing it, and nobody can make them stop or do it better. The tidy meaning is “bad in a way that cannot be changed” — a person who will not learn. Though actually, people often say it with a smile. “He is incorrigibly late” does not mean he is wicked; it means he is late again, and you have given up hoping he will change. You can even say someone is incorrigibly cheerful — not bad at all, just a habit that will not budge. It is a grown-up, slightly word. In casual talk people more often say “he never learns” or “she’ll never change.”
無可救藥地
組成incorrigible (cannot be corrected; will not change) + -ly (in that way).
同家族的字
- incorrigiblethe adjective; this adverb is just that word + -ly
- correctsame older root meaning “make right”; incorrigible is “cannot be made right”
原始詞典資料1 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。
incorrigiblyadv
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In an incorrigible manner.
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。