词汇释义
implacableUK /ɪmˈplæk.ə.bəl/ US /ɪmˈplæk.ə.bəl/TEM8 GRE
adj, If you say that someone is implacable, you mean that they have very strong feelings of hostility or disapproval which nobody can change.不能安抚的，无法平息的，毫不妥协的
外刊例句
1. This issue has nothing to do with "equality" and everything to do with freedom of belief, conscience and expression – it being an implacable attack on these latter.(The Guardian)
2. For fans of a plain, austere look, there is a simple Putin headshot, mouth set in an implacable determination and eyes hidden behind a pair of shades, embossed on a plain white or black t-shirt.(The Guardian)
3. Click on the link provided and you discover the luckless reviewer receiving a lashing was, erm, Stephen Pritchard, who leads a challenging but honourably conducted double life as enraptured muso and implacable fault-finder general.(The Guardian)
4. Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.(The Guardian)
5. Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.(The Guardian)
6. "They are not only implacable, the feeling that they give us is that they are impossible to satisfy," he said.(The Guardian)
7. Michael White writes: To stay in public life for 26 years after being rejected resoundingly by the electorate and one's own party suggests either implacable determination or bloody-minded stubbornness.(The Guardian)
8. And so it was today when Senator Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, dared to suggest that there might just be a racial tinge to the Republicans' wild-eyed outrage over just about everything President Obama says and their implacable opposition to just about everything he does or wants to do.(The New York Times)
9. Most of all, he is dismayed by the grandstanding that seems the inevitable accompaniment to high office – a facility, you might observe, that's apparent in such implacable opponents to his outlook as Theresa May and Chris Grayling.(The Guardian)
10. But parts of the base are implacable on the subject; immigration was a big factor in Mr Cantor's downfall, backed up by a feeling that he was too close to Wall Street.It is not the only issue on which big companies do not see eye to eye with a substantial fraction of the GOP.(The Economist)
11. The notion, peddled by some of his foreign supporters, that Mr Chávez was a moderate radicalised only by implacable opposition both at home and in Washington, does not square with the evidence.Mr Chávez was reluctantly persuaded probably by Mr Castro that elections were better than force as a route to power.(The Economist)
12. Even if he were not, his implacable rival on the right, Binyamin Netanyahu, is breathing down his neck. But if he cleaves to the literal sense of the "irrelevance" resolution, Mr Sharon may find himself in dangerous strife with his Labour partners in the national unity government.(The Economist)
13. It seems that the diversity of this implacable, shape-shifting foe will defeat him.(The Economist)
14. The name of Mr Conté's implacable enemy, Charles Taylor, Liberia's brutal former president, was bandied about.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
implacable enemy, foe, hatred, hostility, opponent, attack
词汇来源
"unappeasable," early 15c., from Old French implacable, from Latin implacabilis "unappeasable," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + placabilis "easily appeased"
近义词
adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
反义词
acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, yielding
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