| 单词 | resistible |
| 释义 | resistible (once / 409 pages) adj If you're not charmed by or interested in an artist's work, you can describe it as resistible. In other words, you find it easy to resist. You might find a used car salesman's style to be completely resistible, and leave the car lot without spending a dime. Or you could explain that you find the death metal genre of music to be resistible when your friend asks why you won't go to a concert with him. Irresistible is more commonly used than resistible, but both words stem from the Latin resistere, "to resist or withstand," from re, "against," and sistere, "take a stand." WORD FAMILYresistible: irresistible, resistibly+/irresistibility: irresistibilities/irresistible: irresistibility, irresistibleness, irresistibler, irresistiblest, irresistibly USAGE EXAMPLESIt is the resistible force against the movable object. The Guardian(Oct 29, 2016) The play, “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” was the playwright Bertolt Brecht’s cautionary tale about the rise of Hitler. New York Times(Oct 28, 2016) Was this supposed to suggest “love resistible”? No. And did the English language subsequently collapse? The Guardian(Mar 25, 2016) adj capable of being resisted or withstood or frustrated a resistible attack such resistible temptations Ant irresistible, resistless impossible to resist; overpowering overpowering, overwhelmingso strong as to be irresistible |
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