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So clearly good, honest, or correct that nobody can attack it. You will see it with a small set of nouns: unimpeachable honesty, unimpeachable character, unimpeachable sources, unimpeachable evidence, an unimpeachable reputation. There are really two flavours. About people, it means their behaviour gives no one anything to accuse them of. About information, it means the source is so reliable that doubting it would be unreasonable — journalists write "from an unimpeachable source". It is formal and rather grand; you meet it in newspapers, biographies, and courtrooms, not in chat. The word comes from , "to accuse or call into question", which today most people know from the process of accusing a president. So the picture underneath is legal: this is something you could not build a case against, however hard you tried.
無可指摘的；無懈可擊的。講人品用「無可挑剔」「無可指摘」，講消息來源、證據用「無懈可擊」「絕對可靠」。
組成un- "not" + impeachable "able to be accused or doubted", which is impeach + -able. Impeach itself came through French from a Latin word about putting a foot-shackle on someone — the old sense is "to stop, to hinder", which later became "to bring a charge against".
同家族的字
- impeachthe verb inside it — to accuse, to call into question
- impeachmentthe noun for that process, as with a president
原始詞典資料3 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。
unimpeachableadj
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Not able to be impeached or reproached.
- a gentleman of unimpeachable integrity
- “Patriotism” makes for a slogan that is so unimpeachable it’s arguably even manipulative; as a matter of strategy, it’s harder for opponents to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act than, say, the Enhanced Security Act.
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Blameless.
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Beyond doubt.
- an unimpeachable alibi
- On the previous day, the prisoner had purchased strychnine at the village chemist’s shop, wearing a disguise by means of which he hoped to throw the onus of the crime upon another man—to wit, Mrs. Inglethorp’s husband, of whom he had been bitterly jealous. Luckily for Mr. Inglethorp, he had been able to produce an unimpeachable alibi.
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。