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Something inviolate is treated as so special, or so firmly kept, that nobody is allowed to attack it, change it, or break it. Writers use it for things they want left whole: a promise, a right, a border, a person’s body, a private room. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned word — you meet it in law, religion, and careful prose more than in the shop. Though actually, many speakers reach for inviolable instead. The two sit close together, but inviolate pictures the thing as it now stands (still untouched), while inviolable is more the rule (it must not be touched). People also stretch it: “his Sunday walk was inviolate” just means nobody was allowed to disturb that habit.
不可侵犯的;神聖不可動搖的
組成From Middle English inviolat / inviolate, from Latin inviolātus. By the pieces you can see: in- (“not”) + violate.
同家族的字
- violatein- (“not”) + violate: something inviolate has not been broken
- violationthe noun for breaking what should stay inviolate
- inviolablethe close adjective meaning “must not be violated”
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。
inviolateadj/ɪnˈvaɪ.ə.lət/
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Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
- His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
- A partner can also, hopefully, be trusted more fully than any other person in our lives. Our courts recognize this by refusing to allow a person to testify against his or her spouse. The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.
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Incorruptible.
- inviolate truth
- There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.
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。