| 词汇 | irretrievably |
| 释义 | irretrievably adverb uk /ˌɪr.ɪˈtriː.və.bli/ us /ˌɪr.əˈtriː.və.bli/ in a way that is not possible to correct or is impossible to return to a previously existing situation or condition: 无法纠正地，不能恢复地，无法挽救地 irretrievably damaged/lost无可挽回的损坏/遗失 They have irretrievably altered the museum.他们已经不可逆转地改变了这座博物馆。 See irretrievable The heart attack left her irretrievably brain damaged. The trial was irretrievably tainted by alleged lies. She felt their marriage was irretrievably broken. Not able to be changed a leopard can't/doesn't change its spotsidiom be no hard and fast rulesidiom burn your boats/bridgesidiom congenital continuity deep-seated incorrigible incurably inelastic inelasticity inflexible irreversibly irrevocable irrevocably leopard sb's way or the highwayidiom unchangeable uncompromising uncompromisingly unredeemable Examples of irretrievablyirretrievably On the other hand, the initial state of the right program is irretrievably lost after the measurement. Historical mindedness disenchants before it re-enchants; it presumes that whole forms have been irretrievably broken (p. 217). The old social order had irretrievably broken down but a new equilibrium had not yet been reached. A population that irretrievably depletes its own resources must of course perish with them. Furthermore, the exclusivity of intellectuals in their 'public ' heyday, so jealously guarded - as demonstrated in the recent studies considered here - has been irretrievably eroded. Sand ashes irretrievably overwhelmed thousands of acres of fertile pasturage. Nevertheless, the general equilibrium was irretrievably altered by the early eighteenth century. Our own identity is intimately, and irretrievably, intertwined with our interpretive stances towards identity in the past, subject and object conflated more than we know or wish. What we call the past is always already and irretrievably a profoundly altered or attenuated version of the contents that were potentially available to consciousness when that past was present. He expresses his own and others' eminently reasonable concern that the word may carry such an emotional and wholly pejorative sense as to be irretrievably lost from the scholarly repertoire. Dismissing earlier work by participant observers as irretrievably biased, they sought ways to justify the continuation of their investigations in a new and less tainted form. They are considered irretrievably ill-formed. The court has power under several different clauses to turn down the petitioner's decree if it thinks that the marriage has not irretrievably broken down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is blurred and blotted and irretrievably spoilt by the vindictive reintroduction of the attack upon the licensing trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, given that some marriages break down irretrievably, divorce is, of course, the only recourse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of irretrievably 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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