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英语单词 intolerable
英美音标 英 [ɪn'tɒlərəbl] 美 [ɪn'tɑːlərəbl]
中文释义 adj.无法忍受的;难耐的
英语例句 (1) This is an intolerable insolence.
(2) The pain is almost intolerable to him.
中文例句 (1) 这是个让人无法忍受的侮辱。
(2) 对他来说这痛苦简直令人无法忍受。
vocabulary简明 If something is impossible to put up with, you can say it is intolerable. It would be intolerable if your neighbors played their terrible, loud music all night long.
vocabulary扩展 Intolerable, tolerable, tolerate, tolerant, and even extol all share the same Latin root word tolerare, which means to bear. Intolerable couples that with the prefix in-, which means not, giving the word its unbearable meaning. The Intolerable Acts, for example, were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The American colonists found them unendurable, and they sparked support for the independence movement, which eventually led to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]不能忍受的;无法容忍的 If you describe something as intolerable, you mean that it is so bad or extreme that no one can bear it or tolerate it.
  • They felt this would put intolerable pressure on them...

    他们觉得这会给他们带来无法承受的压力。

  • Human rights abuses by any party are intolerable.

    任何党派践踏人权的行为都不能容忍。

intolerably
  • ...intolerably cramped conditions...

    拥挤不堪的条件

  • Her leg ached intolerably.

    她的腿疼痛难忍。

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