| 释义 |
unloˈcatable, a.
[f. un-1 7 b + locatable a.]
That cannot be located or placed.
1896Calif. Reports CXI. 603 Its declaration that the land was unlocatable at the time of plaintiff's entry. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. ii. 268 The cousin's voice seemed to emerge from it, sourceless, unlocatable, without even the weight of breath to give it volume. 1955E. Bowen World of Love vi. 113 A call or calling, now nearby, now from behind the skyline, was unlocatable as a corncrake's in uncut grass. 1983New Republic 28 Feb. 38/3 The poet's voice refuses to adhere to its own ‘positions’... Baudelaire is in the unlocatable intervals between tones.
Hence unloˈcatably adv.
1986New Yorker 18 Aug. 71/2 Power has become unlocatably diffused. |