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In a way that leaves no room for criticism or doubt. It is rare, and it almost always comes before an adjective in careful writing: unimpeachably honest, unimpeachably fair, unimpeachably correct, unimpeachably sourced. The effect is stronger than "very" — the writer is saying that even a hostile person, looking for a fault, would find none. Because it is long and formal, using it in ordinary conversation sounds , and students should expect to read it far more often than they say it.
無可指摘地;無懈可擊地。中文通常譯成「無可挑剔地誠實/公正」,或乾脆改成「誠實得無可挑剔」。
組成unimpeachable + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- impeachthe root verb — to accuse or call into question
- unimpeachablethe adjective this comes straight from
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。
unimpeachablyadv
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In an unimpeachable manner.
- They are square, neat boxes with wooden sides all round, and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats.
- But Warner still flinches at being called a poet, because she detects in the term an insinuation that her sensibility is too literary to be unimpeachably hip-hop.
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。