单词 | impenetrable |
释义 | impenetrable (ɪmpenɪtrəbəl ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something such as a barrier or a forest as impenetrable, you mean that it is impossible or very difficult to get through. ...the Caucasus range, an almost impenetrable barrier between Europe and Asia. Synonyms: impassable, solid, impervious, thick 2. adjective If you describe something such as a book or a theory as impenetrable, you are emphasizing that it is impossible or very difficult to understand. [emphasis] His books are notoriously impenetrable. ...these impenetrable poems. impenetrably adverb [ADVERB adjective] ...impenetrably detailed reports on product sales. Collocations: impenetrable forest Rolling green hills are fringed by tracts of impenetrable forest. The Sun While on the run, they venture into an impenetrable forest inhabited by a group of cannibalistic witches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 High water forced them up into the almost impenetrable forest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Just a touch short of oceans and glaciers and impenetrable forests. Times, Sunday Times At our approach, they scutter into an impenetrable thicket of brambles, nettles and hawthorns, through which a winding circular path has been mown. Times, Sunday Times My heart sinks on visits to schools where previously some good-natured souls had constructed a wildlife garden, which inevitably grows into an unsightly and impenetrable thicket. The Sun Bamboos form an impenetrable thicket if left untended. Times, Sunday Times But that only opened my eyes more widely to the experience that others confront as they try to navigate an impenetrable thicket of rules and laws and forms. Times, Sunday Times The ground in my front was covered by an almost impenetrable thicket. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He is therefore not an impenetrable wall of steel; he's just a nuisance. Times, Sunday Times (2010) In contrast, if a painting presents an impenetrable wall of foliage no-one wants to buy it. Improve Your Landscape Painting Their sound relies heavily on a murky, sometimes impenetrable wall of noise. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Behind it was what looked like an impenetrable wall of mountains. Times, Sunday Times (2013) This means it can kill an enemy hiding behind an impenetrable wall. Times, Sunday Times (2011) And yet, the more that you look at his seemingly impenetrable doodles, the more inexorable the pull upon the intellect - and the imagination - becomes. Times, Sunday Times It can be daunting to start a complaint with a seemingly impenetrable company, but the ombudsman offers guidance even before it can formally step in. Times, Sunday Times The skill consists in the remorseless application of pressure and leverage as one advances inch by inch through a seemingly impenetrable mass of opponents. Times, Sunday Times Energy barriers that are seemingly impenetrable to others seem to pose no problem to him. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The film was not an immediate hit among many critics, who faulted its lack of dialogue, slow pacing, and seemingly impenetrable storyline. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 难以穿越的障碍或森林等 Japanese: 通り抜けられない |
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