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单词 implacable
释义
implacableim‧plac‧a‧ble /ɪmˈplækəbəl/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINimplacable
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin implacabilis, from placabilis ‘easily made calm’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Iraq is one of Israel's most implacable enemies.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.
  • He was frightened by the dank smell of the earth and the implacable weight of matter.
  • Love is the one thing we have against the implacable tyranny of time.
  • That one has long since vanished, as a result of the Falls' implacable backward erosion.
  • What I miss, however, in Charles Dance's Coriolanus is a sense of implacable danger.
  • While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 The government faces implacable opposition on the issue of nuclear waste.
 He remained implacably opposed to Stalin’s regime.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The Times has probably become his most implacable critic.
NOUN
· C., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is an implacable foe of the treaty.
· Papinian's divergent decision seems to rest on more implacable opposition to infringing freedom of testation.· While the implacable opposition of Gen Aoun is the main obstacle in his path, there are plenty of other difficulties.· Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its confrontational tactics and its implacable opposition to abortion under all circumstances.· Against the implacable opposition of its lord, Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554.· The implacable opposition of employers had forced wages down despite the most determined efforts of the trade unions.
very determined to continue opposing someone or something:  implacable enemies The government faces implacable opposition on the issue of nuclear waste.implacably adverb:  He remained implacably opposed to Stalin’s regime.implacability /ɪmˌplækəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable]
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