词汇 | intolerable |
释义 | intolerable adjective uk /ɪnˈtɒl.ər.ə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈtɑː.lɚ.ə.bəl/ C2 too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept: 无法容忍的,不能接受的 The situation has become intolerable.局势已经变得无法容忍。 The constant fighting made life at home intolerable.持续不断的争吵使家庭生活变得无法忍受。 Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.世界上3/4的人口生活在西方人会感到难以忍受的环境中。 Synonyms unbearable unendurableformal Opposite tolerable Not good enough be not onidiom beneath cop deficiency deficiency in something intolerably lamely lameness leave a lot to be desiredidiom medevac second-rate sub-optimum subaverage suboptimal substandard unsatisfactory unsatisfying unsound unworthily unworthy Related wordintolerably intolerable | American Dictionaryintolerable adjective us/ɪnˈtɑl·ər·ə·bəl/ too bad or difficult to bear or to be accepted: Living conditions were intolerable after the storm. This hot weather is becoming intolerable. Examples of intolerableintolerable He considered leaving the fort without consulting him or getting his permission as intolerable behaviour. This presented a quite serious paradox, although it was neither unfamiliar nor intolerable. If the patient's condition is intolerable, a physician may chose to perform euthanasia when he considers the conflicting duties carefully. For his further intellectual orientation he felt like bridging these intolerable positions. Here is one more attempt to persuade the world that an ageing population will not necessarily impose an intolerable burden on younger generations. To recognize which are the ones that are intolerable is a difficult matter because authorities and tastes are very divided on the subject. It is an intolerable biter in areas where it occurs commonly. In effect, when the brutality became unmarketable, the music became intolerable. This suggests that high soil temperature variability coupled with depth to groundwater create conditions intolerable to crabs. This risk is heightened by the near-absence of ethical guidance as to how to distinguish between acceptable and intolerable furtherance of state objectives. Most of these women wished to continue the pregnancy but realized that it would create intolerable problems under their current circumstances. He needs everyone's support, particularly to obtain the sponsorship needed to organise such a meeting without placing an intolerable financial burden on those who attend. At some point the "credibility gap", to borrow a contemporary phrase, becomes so great as to be intolerable and a catastrophic lowering of self-esteem occurs. In cases where communally led initiatives lagged, or where actions by gangsters became intolerable, there was the danger of vigilante-style reaction from the public. Allowing membership in a single organization to determine priority among those willing to donate is even more intolerable. 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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