| 词汇 | example_english_impenetrable |
| 释义 | Examples of impenetrableThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Her protagonists resemble silhouettes or marionettes, who present angular and impenetrable exteriors. What makes a body impenetrable is its matter, which conceptually an immaterial extension must lack. The understorey of these sites is very dense and almost impenetrable. We mechanically excavated 1-m-deep to an impenetrable ferricrete layer. While their musical world was frequently closed and impenetrable from the outside, times of complete openness to others and to other musical worlds did develop. Only if the style is so impenetrable that it obscures meaning should they intervene. When social reminiscence is ' staged ' it is bound to lose spontaneity and private, naturally occurring reminiscence is, almost by definition, impenetrable. The cervical mucus plug usually acts as a barrier, which is impenetrable to bacteria during pregnancy. Internally, electric alarms, concealed doors, hatches, trapdoors, and underground passages made for near impenetrable strongholds. A centralised archive will facilitate access by other researchers and will be most helpful, particularly since research in this area often seems impenetrable. While this reference to the woodcutter's or carpenter's arts is a tantalizing one, it is not impenetrable. Even if vagueness in law were an impenetrable linguistic problem, we would not be allowed to conclude that vagueness makes law indeterminate. In the stereotypical view, miners formed a 'breed apart': close-knit, class-conscious and impenetrable communities. His work was abstruse and impenetrable, his demeanor reserved, and his resistance to using the bully pulpit to comment on current economic events unprecedented. As aspects of timbre are isolated and understood, such as spatial location and reverberation, these components come to be regarded separately, leaving timbre as impenetrable as ever. The prosthesis that pushes the body into ugly metamorphosis presses the possibility that the subject hides an undiscovered mechanism beneath the impenetrable mass of entangled muscles and nerves. To ensure that directional light within the constant temperature and humidity room did not affect the behaviour of the insects, each choice chamber was completely covered with light impenetrable material. Syring seeks to blaze a trail through the by now virtually impenetrable literature, and sums up the various different positions without losing sight of his own point of view. Often, the impenetrable linguistic constructions which describe electroacoustic music appear designed to promote a rhetoric or to disguise ill-conceived, confused ideas about music with inappropriate manipulations of metaphor. If actor-networks are tightly formed and impenetrable, and contexts and circumstances are not conducive to change, no amount of rational argument will budge a policy from its pedestal. Just as the other way around, there are scientific complexes which remain impenetrable, as long as the visual structures of human thought, indispensable in their illumination and obscuring, are ignored. During the later sequences of this work the sound masses are laminated to an extraordinary degree of density, creating a glistening, metallic surface which is almost impenetrable. Most of the other chapters are of good quality, although inevitably there is some variability, particularly in the style, which is often awkward and occasionally impenetrable. Indeed, we first tried to prove the results of this paper by pointwise means, and although we mostly succeeded at the time, the proofs were rather impenetrable. Second, obstacles to understanding because of its impenetrable website. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English People have rightly said that the institutions are closed, elitist and impenetrable to the citizens. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I realise that effective drafting invariably produces impenetrable prose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sea is now not impassable, and the deserts are now not impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I daresay it escaped attention on account of the impenetrable obscurity of its dictionary definition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many solicitors who have not found an impenetrable barrier in moving from a working-class background into the profession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many thousands of decided cases, and tax law is becoming a jungle which is impenetrable to all except the most ingenious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment paper contains about two pages of impenetrable prose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Legal documents can often seem quite impenetrable, even to those of us who deal with them every day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They make the wood thicker, the darkness deeper, and the night more impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No air defence organisation can ever be an impenetrable barrier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The answer is probably that it is just as impenetrable unless there is a determined effort to achieve the contrary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Traditionally the nationalised industries have appeared to present an impenetrable front to their customers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the present time the veil of secrecy is thick and impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rules for the so-called apportionment of close companies' income are notoriously complex, taking up some twenty pages of impenetrable legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Impenetrable vegetation or hedges or fences across a footpath can be dealt with by existing legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The very language developed by those who work within it may prove impenetrable to those who stand most in need of its help. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have to tell him that one does not need to try to make this topic boring and impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He referred to people going on a walk where the route peters out because of an impenetrable jungle of undergrowth, or fields of growing corn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the fog that enshrouds such debates is still quite impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, we are designed with a nearly impenetrable barrier between the bloodstream and the extraordinarily toxic and infectious contents of the bowel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are too many loopholes with national regulations crocheted in elsewhere, making individual interpretations possible and the whole thing impenetrable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English On the north-east, of course, there is the railway which provides an impenetrable barrier without a single bridge for a considerable distance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In time, however, these superimposed piles of amendments tend to form an almost impenetrable mass of deletions and additions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Seen when skin-diving, the octupus is an object of transcendant beauty: its deep enormous impenetrable eyes perceiving what? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can merely shout into the wind and endeavour to show that his self-righteousness in impenetrable either by argument or by truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no public or parliamentary control over that group of officials, whose work appears to be wrapped in impenetrable mystery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are impenetrable because the decisions have not yet been taken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The argument has also been put forward that the boundary commissioners should have crossed county boundaries, that county boundaries were not impenetrable barriers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too many, naturally full of youthful zest, find the maze impenetrable, stop trying, lose confidence, and become switched off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rules concerning appeals at various levels have become increasingly complicated and impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those days—and it is still so now—about a third of the country was impenetrable because of tropical forests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are completely impenetrable; they are utterly incomprehensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problem is that it militates against public involvement, as does the impenetrable jargon, which we could refer to as planning-speak. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To outsiders, this is an impenetrable technical dossier with no fewer than 800 amendments or thereabouts; a document at least 10 cm thick. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Without expert guidance, the annexes are simply impenetrable for most of us - that has been my experience at least. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The second and third pillars will not be covered by this regulation and will therefore remain impenetrable, to the detriment of citizens' basic fundamental rights. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The material reserves in this country are shrouded in an impenetrable mystery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In subsection (2) the layman is plunged into almost impenetrable darkness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not up against a dark impenetrable wall as he might have been some years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, we shall get an almost impenetrable barrier to rural amenities where these roads run. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regard the fishing industry as one of the most impenetrable of all industries in this country today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Part of the reason for my tabling such amendments was to probe what is a pretty impenetrable clause. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I share his view entirely that much of the language is impenetrable, but the numbers at least are not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The hopes and aspirations we all had a few years ago seem to have disappeared in an impenetrable fog of half measures and indecision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To be fair to lawyers, they must grapple with legislation that is impenetrable, difficult and often ambiguous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there is no doubt, that behind that impenetrable barrier we raised up in this country a very great breeding industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the definitions have been changed, there is no continuity in the series, and many of the phrases and much of the language is impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the tragedies is that it is an impenetrable maze for many people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is the case, we can all watch out for a system that is hugely complex, impenetrable and unintelligible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The point is that we are now looking into what seems to be almost the impenetrable future; namely, 1983. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The poorer the country, the more damaging it will be; it will create an impenetrable barrier for poor countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He stated that it was couched in more than usually impenetrable language. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They feel themselves impenetrable to criticism and all that kind of thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The morass has become muddier, the thicket more impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that he agrees—though his remarks were a little impenetrable—that legal aid should be extended immediately to industrial tribunals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are some indications on the legal bases, in these lengthy, somewhat impenetrable annexes, but no reference whatsoever to the choice of legislative instrument. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Everything is done to make the lines of responsibility, the identity of the owners and real decision-makers as impenetrable as possible. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They have not been able to do it because, frankly, the accounts are impenetrable to the ordinary person. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of the time their thoughts are impenetrable and their expression of whatever thoughts they have, still more so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On all this the fog of secrecy is impenetrable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Meanings get lost in translation; anomalies go unexplained; what was obvious in the 1590s and early 1600s is impenetrable today. Feminist organizations and the media appeared almost impenetrable to us. I have never subscribed to the prejudice that implies that sociological writing is boring, impenetrable, obscure and irrelevant. The investigation of the language discloses the secrets of national character, otherwise impenetrable, and reveals the origin of customs long since forgotten. Not every imagery-related phenomenon that is genuinely cognitively impenetrable provides evidence for the nature of mental images or their mechanisms. A major problem, evident within several papers, is language use, which at times can be irritatingly obfuscating, impenetrable and, in effect, discouraging. Nonetheless, as the editors themselves acknowledge, the material is at times obscure and even impenetrable due to the density of local and particularist references. Through the process of decoding, a critical perspective can be reached on the reality previously perceived as impenetrable. He thus at once presupposes and undercuts the allegedly impenetrable barrier between doctor and patient upon which his proposed prophylaxis depends. He seems to insist that the boundary is there: real, thick, absolute, and impenetrable. They are not exactly unrepressed, however; they remain in wordlessness, the poetic equivalent of impenetrable darkness. History remains foreign and impenetrable, a puzzle to which we possess only a few of the clues. Most soils are not fit for the cultivation of millet and sorghum because of impenetrable layers in the subsoil. A very complex natural law may hold without exception but it might be impenetrable to the visual system and appear inconsistent. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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