| 词汇 | unadaptable |
| 释义 | unadaptable adjective uk /ˌʌn.əˈdæp.tə.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.əˈdæp.tə.bəl/ not able or willing to change or be changed in order to suit different conditions : 不能适应的;不适合的 He was a Southern gentleman and that made him unadaptable to life in the hustling Midwest.他是一位来自南方的绅士，无法适应中西部的生活。 (of an artistic work) not able to be changed into a different form: （艺术作品等）不可改编的 Long thought unadaptable, Mervyn Peake's fantastical tale finally makes it to the small screen.长期以来，默文·皮克的奇幻故事被认为是不可改编的，现在终于被搬上了小银幕。 I believe he's a dying breed and, like all unadaptable life forms, will become extinct. I couldn't understand why people were so unadaptable and stuck in their ways. Charlotte Jones adapted Wilkie Collins's "unadaptable" novel The Woman in White. There would be the temptation to make the movie an adaptation of the novel, and the novel is unadaptable. Not able to be changed be no hard and fast rulesidiom burn your boats/bridgesidiom congenital continuity deep-seated incorrigible incurably inelastic inelasticity inflexible irreversible irreversibly irrevocable irrevocably leopard sb's way or the highwayidiom unchangeable uncompromising uncompromisingly unredeemable Examples of unadaptableunadaptable Similar questions relating to fearful, unadaptable behavior in infancy and later internalizing are also posed. If agreement had been reached the outcome would have been rigid and unadaptable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same applies to his observations warning us against it being too rigid or unadaptable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have a rigid mind: it is an unadaptable mind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In human history we have seen that the feudal system ran to its dead end in the powerful but unadaptable feudal barons and emperors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are unadaptable, inelastic, and are apt to be irritating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The underperforming, or unadaptable and inflexible employee could be fairly dismissed on ground of capability. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The unadaptable junkmen can instead adapt these wild frontiers into coloniesas history's first professional pioneers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The epic bestseller had been considered unadaptable by every major studio in the country. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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