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Something unarguable is so clearly true that there is nothing left to argue about. If you put it on the table, no reasonable person can push back. Facts are the usual case: "It is unarguable that prices have gone up." Notice what the word is really doing in a conversation, though. People rarely say it about something boring and obvious — nobody says "it is unarguable that water is wet". They say it when they are making a case, and they want to mark one particular point as settled so the discussion can move past it. So it often carries a small note of "stop arguing about this bit". That is why it sounds formal and slightly ; you meet it in writing, in speeches, in reports, much more than in chat with friends. In everyday speech students are far more likely to hear undeniable, or just "you can't argue with that". A quieter use is about a quality rather than a claim: "her unarguable talent" means talent nobody would dispute. Careful with the noun form, which some dictionaries also list — it is very rare, and you are safe treating this as an adjective.
無可爭辯的、無庸置疑的(口語會說「這點沒得吵」)。
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。
unarguableadj
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Not arguable; that cannot be reasonably argued against.
- It's unarguable that ticket offices are less relevant than they once were. More and more passengers buy tickets online.
unarguablenoun
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Such a situation
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。