词汇 | unattainable |
释义 | unattainable adjective uk /ˌʌn.əˈteɪ.nə.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.əˈteɪ.nə.bəl/ C2 not able to be achieved: 达不到的,无法实现的 an unattainable ideal无法实现的理想 Many economists think that full employment is an unattainable goal.一些经济学家认为实现充分就业的目标是无法达到的。 not able to be achieved impossibleThere's no way we'll be able to get the paperwork done in time – it's impossible. unachievableThere is no point in setting unachievable goals for yourself. unattainableThese bodybuilders are chasing an unattainable ideal – they'll never be as muscular as they want. unfeasibleIt would be unfeasible to try to ban all petrol vehicles at the moment. infeasibleThe company has promised a fully self-driving car in a year, but engineers say it is technically infeasible. Unachievable be (a) no goidiom be on a hiding to nothingidiom be on the road to nowhereidiom be out of your leagueidiom cat ghost goodbye impossibility impossible impracticable impracticably in/out of the runningidiom league running silk unachievable unfeasible unfeasibly unrealizable unscalable Examples of unattainableunattainable This goal seemed virtually unattainable not long ago. While ' craft ' was a foil for ' conscience ', virtue and liberty were complemented by - indeed, unattainable without - true religion, which moderated the passions. Without lump sum transfers, solutions to traditional accounting models founded on utility-based social welfare functions may be unattainable. One can then ask how she knows that further clarity is unattainable. It means that certain directions of motion are unattainable and the manipulator loses at least one degree of freedom. Because the ideal moral character is a construct of reason, it is by definition unattainable by flesh-and-blood characters, who might uncharacteristically slip on occasion. One problem is that true genetic balance is an unattainable goal, since there is inevitable skewing toward genetic units containing large numbers of languages. Here there was a trade-off, as a result of which women's organisations achieved some perhaps otherwise unattainable goals, but became prisoners of cardenista political culture. Professionals hold themselves and are held to unattainable standards. This article argues that 'ideal dialogue', which is free from power, is unattainable and unrealistic, and power is inherent in all dialogues. Inclusive and open meetings under the 'canopy of heaven' invested themselves with an 'honesty' that was unattainable in 'fashionable halls and gilded rooms'. The high returns that cooperating individuals receive from whale hunting are unattainable by solitary hunters. Thriving street markets offer a multitude of goods, including illicit ones, that were unattainable in the region before. Both the panegyric and the wine poem begin with the condition of separation definitive of the empirical self, figured through the idealized, unattainable beloved. Transaction cost economics advocates comparative institutional analysis as opposed to a comparison of the status quo with an unattainable 'first best'. 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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