| 词汇 | example_english_unthinkable |
| 释义 | Examples of unthinkableThese 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. In fact, in the 1960s open criticism of the leading defenders of 'the law of development' became almost unthinkable. There was even a television-broadcast debate on this controversy,19 which previously would have been unthinkable. He looked at me in surprise ; to him it was unthinkable that someone would not believe. The odd hexagon or octagon extends the principle further, but departure from the technical method is unthinkable. Canons require their own others, texts that are both within and without, to think the unthinkable within their disputed domains. Such an alternative vision was made unthinkable through the obliteration of certain evocative places. If tolerance of established race and gender inequalities is considered to be wholly unacceptable, any policy which further institutionalises such practices must surely be unthinkable. They both came to inspire apparent fantasies of immortality in their subjects, who found it simultaneously exhilarating and unthinkable to imagine living without them. Were this not a fundamental assumption, the idea that a leitmotif recurs for musical-formal reasons in defiance of text would be unthinkable. In other countries too, such parties have made inroads unthinkable not long ago. Leaders have been known to make an art of ' 'thinking the unthinkable' '. If chiefly aggrandizement was unthinkable, so was chiefly accountability : a chief could hardly be held personally accountable for property which belonged to the stool. What had previously been unthinkable suddenly became feasible. The emerging rail system made travel possible with a speed unthinkable in earlier times. By the time of his death it filled over a thousand pages ; publication had long been unthinkable. None the less, they demonstrate that it is sometimes unthinkable to eliminate the redundancy resulting from the coordination of stage action and music. Diversity in scenic expression was unthinkable, and subsidies for anomalous, experimental, or fringe theatre did not exist. Quite simply, concentrating such industries into monopolies or oligopolies was unthinkable. While other cities might be metaphorically captured in a totalizing bird's-eye view, such metaphorical possession was unthinkable for the capital. Unthinkable, then, that what survived could be other than what was fittest. They delicately dare to think the unthinkable: that land should not always be given privileged protection in the face of human needs for room to live and work. Violation of them is unthinkable. Two hundred and fifty years later, we can confidently say that industrialisation has greatly contributed to wealth and well-being - making available and affordable a previously unthinkable range of products. The remarkable transformation of provincial hospital commissions from intransigent defenders of localism before the war to advocates of regional and national reform is unthinkable without the war experience. Actually, e-sacred music is not unthinkable either. Compromise between the two sides seemed unthinkable. The result is a utopian subject, capable of sustaining a degree of deviance unthinkable in the mainstream, a challenge and an alternative to the common molds of selfhood. Although there is no explicit argument in these first hundred pages of discussion of fertility that there was no general employment of family limitation, that possibility is made almost unthinkable. Physicians are interested in what happens in humans but have the restriction that experimental infection of humans is generally regarded as unethical and histology following experimental infection unthinkable. I am under no illusion that these pieces play any significant role in effecting change, but the alternative - ignoring these subjects in my work - is unthinkable. I regard it as unthinkable that they would not use them as they saw necessary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When workers have seen these measures established, it is unthinkable that they should be removed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such agreement would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and illustrates the change in the situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The concept of experimenting on the unborn child was unthinkable just a few years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course there was no bargain—no bargain of any kind, such a thing is impossible and unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that disposes at once in plain terms of the proposition as being really unthinkable to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even if such promises could be kept, which is almost unthinkable in reality, the resultant rise in taxes and inflation would bleed the economy dry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until recently, it would have been unthinkable for in "educated" man or woman not to have some knowledge of other languages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a proposition appears to me to be unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The alternative to such a settlement is unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When the site became empty, it seemed unthinkable that it would be replaced by another factory employing the same number of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Present conditions are unjust and outdated, and any worsening would be unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any suggestion of financial support by the owner in return would, of course, be unthinkable in a democracy, particularly when planning applications are involved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are large areas where any kind of development would be unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Fifteen years ago the whole question of sterilisation was brushed aside as so improper, so unthinkable and so impracticable as to be unworthy of argument. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A few years ago such results would have been unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a labour-intensive industry such as retailing, it would be unthinkable to attempt to continue rigid price control when wages have been let go free. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The very mention of closure was unthinkable to the work force and alarming to the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any war between most of our colleagues is virtually unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To repeat, it would therefore be unthinkable for us not to be among the first 65 ratifying signatories. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The alternative of not having a law has become unthinkable, given the scale of the problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the experience of recent years is anything to go by, the improbable always happens and the unthinkable very frequently does. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not only would that be unthinkable; it would be impossible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We clearly have to protect ourselves against the unthinkable—that is, a war with the possibility of an early escalation into nuclear war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that everyone will agree that the idea of raising the level of direct taxation is unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we all recognise that that is really unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that it could increase the sentence; that would be unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The impression that this will leave on the minds of young children is unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even a few years ago, such effective agreement among so many countries would have been unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it the fact that we can see the pain and the reaction of the child in the incubator that makes such an act unthinkable? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A few years ago that would have been totally unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I consider a common asylum policy to which there is no definite key for sharing the load to be completely unthinkable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Cooperation in the field of justice and home affairs is unthinkable without some minimum level of data collection and transmission. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Anything else would be unthinkable in a democracy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Six months ago, this would have been absolutely unthinkable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Perhaps it was unthinkable, but it was all dropped. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sorry, but it is not unthinkable to me—it is all too thinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Adding water to it is something we see is unthinkable and which the consumer would not stand for. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English All parties are engaged in variations of radically thinking the unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now face a set of circumstances almost unthinkable 12 months ago and certainly not predicted then. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other countries it would be unthinkable—indeed, unlawful—for that to happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it done for fun, or with the object of avoiding the unthinkable tragedy of another war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None the less, to my mind it is quite unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I feel it is unthinkable that we should deliberately deal a blow to the progress and livelihood of those millions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The holding of an election on the register which is now being prepared is unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Ten years ago this present day's debate would have seemed unlikely, and twenty years ago unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we have the orders, it would be unthinkable not to place them there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Making the asylum seeker prove that he cannot safely move to another part of the country is quite unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Where they have had no notice and could not avoid payment, it is unreasonable and unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind it is unthinkable that there should be claims to have recounts in counties or in regions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problems of local government finance and control over expenditure may lead us to start thinking what was unthinkable two years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To drift is fatal, and the first alternative is unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In view of their ownership and the destination of their net incomes, any suggestion of nationalisation is unthinkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I take it that it would be unthinkable to abandon the fast breeder reactor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To have abandoned such a long-standing project at such an advanced age was unthinkable and unrealistic. Surely the unthinkable thought has become so explicit, there is no possibility of using more clichés or searchlight devices; the usual remedies have run out. Certainly such correspondence is unthinkable without any notion of a formal grammar. Most worrisome, he sees thoughts he considers unthinkable. Compared with these figures, a target of 10 billion dollars was almost unthinkable. Such comment would have been unthinkable before 1784, and the journal evidently had the protection of the liberal reformers in government. Such studies would now be unthinkable, but it is difficult to see how else the results could have been obtained at that time. The category of adjectives for example will admit new members fairly quickly, whereas the creation of new determiners is highly rare if not unthinkable. Thus, such strikes are ethically more problematic, even if not entirely unthinkable. Maintaining the policy in face of previously unthinkable levels of unemployment became a test of" resolute leadership". He has always been ready to think the unthinkable. In neither film does the dutiful son even consider raising his hand in self-defense or-unthinkable-in aggression. Giving an economic cast to ideas previously advocated on other grounds could reshuffle the deck of national politics, making possible transformations in policy otherwise unthinkable. Without such organization, the organism was unthinkable as an elementary one. Today, an exhibit of this sort would be unthinkable, except, possibly in a children's section. 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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