| 单词 | inability |
| 释义 | inability (ɪnəbɪlɪti ) uncountable noun [usually NOUN to-infinitive, usually with poss] If you refer to someone's inability to do something, you are referring to the fact that they are unable to do it. Her inability to concentrate could cause an accident. ...the government's inability to provide basic services. Synonyms: incapability, incompetence, inadequacy, impotence Collocations: chronic inability to A chronic inability to complete what he commences. Times, Sunday Times But occasionally his capacity to sympathise with others and his willingness to help them gets him into all sorts of trouble, made worse by his chronic inability to lie. Times, Sunday Times Advances in art, philosophy and science went hand in hand with political discord, social injustice, perpetual warfare and a chronic inability to forge a common political identity. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, his chronic inability to close the gap between whatever was his income and his infinite social ambitions would always make his literary motives suspect. The Times Literary Supplement The lightship would display a chronic inability to hold its station in future years, even after its single anchor chain was supplemented with second and third anchors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I'm talking about their complete inability to know how to behave on holiday. Times, Sunday Times (2015) One of the many things I have taken from my mum is her complete inability to lie. The Sun (2010) There is a complete inability to issue debt, and asset pricing is under pressure. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The one thing that the history of technology shows above all else is our complete inability to see what comes next. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Both possess a complete inability to be gracious in defeat. The Sun (2016) Translations: Chinese: 无力 Japanese: 不能 |
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