单词 | irrepressible |
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音标 | [`iri'presəbl] |
解释 | a.无法约束或阻止的 |
红宝书 | 无 |
字源 | irrepressible (adj.) 1767, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + repressible (see repress). Increase of population, which is filling the States out to their very borders, together with a new and extended network of railroads and other avenues, and an internal commerce which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing the States into a higher and more perfect social unity or consolidation. Thus, these antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and collision results. Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefor ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. [William H. Seward, speech at Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 2, 1858] Related: Irrepressibly. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 无 |
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