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The adverb of 'irreparable': in a way that can never be repaired or put right. It almost always sits in front of a past participle describing damage — irreparably damaged, irreparably harmed, irreparably broken, irreparably lost. That is its natural home, and if you use it there you will sound right. It is formal, and common in news writing and serious speech: 'her reputation was irreparably damaged'. Because it points at a permanent result, it works best with things that happened once and cannot be undone. Note the same stress as the adjective: ir-REP-ar-ably.
無法修復地、無可彌補地(常搭配「損害了、破壞了」)
組成irreparable + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- irreparablethe adjective this is built from
- repairthe root idea inside both
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。
irreparablyadv
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Such that it cannot be repaired.
- The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
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。