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词汇 impenetrable
释义 impenetrable
adjective
uk /ɪmˈpen.ɪ.trə.bəl/ us /ɪmˈpen.ə.trə.bəl/
impossible to see through or go through: 不能看透的;不能穿过的
Outside, the fog was thick and impenetrable.外面的雾很浓,什么也看不见。
an impenetrable barrier无法跨越的障碍
Synonyms
impermeable
impervious(SUBSTANCE)specialized
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waterproofadjective
watertight(NO WATER)
weatherproofadjective
Opposite
permeableformal
impossible to understand: 无法理解的;难以理解的
Some of the lyrics on their latest album are completely impenetrable.他们最新专辑中的一些歌词让人完全看不懂。
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impenetrably

impenetrable | American Dictionary


impenetrable
adjective
us/ɪmˈpen·ɪ·trə·bəl/
impossible to enter or go through:
an impenetrable jungle
If language is described as impenetrable, it is impossible to understand:
Too many scholarly books are written in an impenetrable jargon.

Examples of impenetrable


impenetrable
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.
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