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So correct and so good that no one can find anything to criticize. To reproach someone is to tell them, usually gently and sadly, that they did wrong; 'irreproachable' says there is no opening for that at all. It goes with behaviour, conduct, manners, character, a record, a reputation: his conduct throughout was irreproachable. It is formal and rather old-fashioned in tone, at home in reports, references, court writing, and careful journalism. Notice what it really praises — not brilliance, but blamelessness. Saying someone's work was irreproachable means nobody can fault it, which is not quite the same as saying it was wonderful, and English speakers sometimes use it exactly that way, as polite praise that stops short of warmth.
無可指責的、無可挑剔的、（品行）端正
組成ir- ('not') + reproachable ('able to be blamed'), from 'reproach', to blame someone gently. Borrowed from French irréprochable, first seen in English in the 1630s.
同家族的字
- reproachto gently blame — the verb inside
- reproachfula reproachful look is one full of quiet blame
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。
irreproachableadj
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Free from blame, not open to reproach or criticism; blameless.
- At Athens the Prieſts and Prieſteſſes were drawn by lot, from the men and virgins of diſtinguiſhed family and irreproachable life. Maimed or deformed perſons were not admitted, and purity and chaſtity were ſo particularly required, that the Prieſts frequently uſed means to emaſculate themselves.
- “Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found a husband the most docile, irreproachable, and obedient of created beings, and that all heiresses apparent to thrones will do the same;[…]”
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。