Front | immaculate |
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Pron | [ɪ'mækjələt] |
Back | 【immaculate】 adj.洁净的;无暇的 When he was a child, his life contained noble ambitions and immaculate thought. 当他小的时候,他的生命包含高贵的理想和纯洁的思想。 |
Vocab | immaculatecompletely neat and clean
Immaculate means spotless, pure, and clean as fresh snow on a far-off mountain. Only obsessive cleaners can keep immaculate homes, but it’s a goal we can strive for, like that far-off mountain. Immaculate literally means without a spot or a stain. We can use immaculate to describe physical things, like bathrooms or kitchens. But we also use the word metaphorically to describe honor or purity — in the Catholic church, being immaculate means being "free from sin," like the Virgin Mary. Or someone with a pure, exact singing voice could be described as having immaculate pitch. If your home team plays a perfect game, you could say their performance was immaculate. All forms of 'immaculate' will appear on average once every 1800 pages. immaculate immaculately immaculateness |
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