喜樂美語
  1. 1絕不會錯的、萬無一失的(宗教上也指教宗絕無謬誤)

    Infallible describes someone or something that is never wrong - incapable of making a mistake or failing. You might describe a method, a very reliable memory, or (in a religious context) the Pope's authority on certain matters as infallible. In daily speech, people often use it a little loosely, or even jokingly, to mean 'almost never wrong' rather than literally impossible to fail.

組成in- ('not') + fallible ('capable of making mistakes,' from Latin 'fallere,' to fail or deceive). Infallible means not fallible - unable to fail.

同家族的字

  • falliblethe opposite - capable of making mistakes; most people ARE fallible
  • failshares the Latin root 'fallere' (to fail, to deceive)

原始詞典資料5 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。

Infalliblenoun

  • 1

    IslamlifestylereligionAny of the fourteen central religious figures believed by Twelver Shia Muslims to be infallible, consisting of Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, and the Twelve Imams recognized by Twelvers.

infalliblenoun/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/

  • 1

    A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible.

infallibleadj/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/

  • 1

    Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.

    • He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.
    • That there may be Certainty upon an infallible Evidence in Matters of Science, I readily grant you. But since there once were Scepticks in Philosophy as well as Religion, such as doubted of every thing, I very much question, whether the whole World be agreed in this Point; unless you could assure me, that Race of Seekers is now extinct.
  • 2

    Certain to produce the intended effect; sure.

    • Try this infallible cure for hiccups.
    • [L]isten patiently [...] and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
  • 3

    Certain to result from a specific cause; inevitable.

    • Paley can only account for this fact by saying that we are constrained by the fear of punishment in a future life, such having been declared to us by revelation to be the infallible result of wrong action.

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