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So bad that nothing can fix it, make it better, or undo it. A remedy is a cure or a fix, so 'irremediable' means 'no cure possible' — not 'very bad', but 'bad and permanent'. You use it for damage, loss, mistakes, situations: an irremediable error, irremediable harm to a friendship. It is a formal, written word — you meet it in books, law, essays, church writing, and speeches, and almost never in normal speech, where people say 'you can't fix it' or 'it's beyond repair'. Two things are worth noticing. First, it is very close to 'irreparable', and in most sentences either one works; 'irreparable' is the one by far, and 'irremediable' has a slightly , sometimes moral flavour — it suits a fault, a condition, a state of the soul, as much as a broken thing. Second, people sometimes use it more loosely to mean 'hopeless, not worth trying with', which the strict meaning does not quite cover, but that use is old and normal in writing.
無法補救的、無可挽回的
組成ir- (a form of 'in-', meaning 'not', spelled 'ir-' before r) + remediable ('able to be fixed'), which comes from 'remedy'. From Latin irremediābilis. So: not-fixable.
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。
irremediableadj
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Unable to be remedied, cured, corrected or repaired; irreparable, incurable.
- irremediable conflict
- irremediable pain
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。