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词汇 imperturbable
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Definition of imperturbable in English:

imperturbable

adjectiveˌɪmpəˈtəːbəb(ə)lˌɪmpərˈtərbəb(ə)l
  • Unable to be upset or excited; calm.

    不受打搅的,不易激动的,冷静的,沉着的

    an imperturbable tranquillity

    一种打不乱的宁静。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The fax was pouring out messages, the telephone had barely stopped and the loyal secretary was still at her station in the office, cool and imperturbable as ever.
    • His distaste for big inert words - words like omniscient, impassable and imperturbable, which he finds other theologians using to describe God - inspires his own desire for accessibility.
    • We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
    • On the contrary, when all others have given up in despair, these persons stand imperturbable in the face of peril, relying for support not on material things, but on the soundness of reason and on their own superior judgement.
    • I had various curious cases against him at the Bar - hard and evenly fought battles - in which he was imperturbable.
    • Buddhism is the pursuit of inner-peace through meditation - through his own, diligent efforts, the Buddhist hopes to arrive at this imperturbable, sanguine state of being.
    • I was imperturbable at work, never losing my patience or raising my voice.
    • It's very much like the radiance of falling in love, but it's not the ordinary falling in love where we're still involved in attachment and aversion; it's a radiance that is imperturbable because totally ultimate.
    • It felt classy and utterly imperturbable - the sort of place where the band might play Stormy Weather in a raging typhoon.
    • It would be difficult to praise his work as Book Review Editor more highly than it deserves, and those of us who have worked with him most closely will miss his imperturbable good humor and complete reliability.
    • Earl Alexander was a military commander with little taste for panache but distinguished by imperturbable confidence.
    • Through what is called neutrality of tone, philosophical discourse must also guarantee the neutrality or at least the imperturbable serenity that should accompany the relation to the true and the universal.
    • Despite the exclamation mark, he talks in the flat, imperturbable vowels of Sussex, his voice rising not so much in volume as in exasperation.
    • But emotionally he found it extremely difficult to resign himself to the disappearance of that invigorating militancy and that imperturbable self-assurance that had marked the working class in the 1970s.
    • She looked down and felt a strange sense of imperturbable calm.
    • In fact, it would be in deep trouble if it was relying on the utterly solid, sweet-natured and imperturbable country boy for dramatic tension.
    • This ice has a character different from the clear, unblemished ice, as if all the hardship of those periods congealed to create a solid, imperturbable substance.
    • But the square looks in on itself, exuding an air of imperturbable gentility.
    • The prosecutors liked me because my professional experience as a media researcher had steeled me against public abuse and made me imperturbable under cross examination.
    • One secret of the success of the English was, perhaps, their imperturbable tolerance.
    Synonyms
    self-possessed, composed, collected, calm, {cool, calm, and collected}, as cool as a cucumber, cool-headed, self-controlled, poised, tranquil, serene, relaxed, easy-going, unexcitable, even-tempered, placid, sedate, phlegmatic
    unperturbed, unflustered, untroubled, unbothered, unruffled, undismayed, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, nonchalant, at ease
    informal unflappable, unfazed, together, laid-back
    rare equanimous

Derivatives

  • imperturbability

  • nounˌɪmpətəːbəˈbɪlɪtiˌɪmpərtərbəˈbɪlədi
    • Yet for many making the link, it is undoubtedly his imperturbability rather than consistency of play that informs comparisons.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is this imperturbability that marks him as something special.
      • In the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability.
      • Alexander was no original thinker but he had many virtues, not the least of which were his personal courage, his imperturbability in battle, and his ability to make friends among whom Churchill counted himself one.
      • Robert Mitchum, their co-star, was legendary for his imperturbability.
  • imperturbableness

  • noun
  • imperturbably

  • adverbɪmpəˈtəːbəbliˌɪmpərˈtərbəbli
    • ‘I just did what I thought was best’ she offered imperturbably, shrugging.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘I'd hate to meet the bad cop,’ smiles Williams imperturbably - an exquisite one-liner.
      • For this book, Henry has devised a style - imperturbably sustained - that is numb with cold and hardly admitted hurt.
      • Time-lapse clips would show me getting conspicuously older as the institutional masonry remains imperturbably unchanged, but for all that steady aging, my associations with that name still feel fresh.
      • The tracking of the on-screen camera is steady in its course, carefully guided by the technicians at its controls, and imperturbably composed in its implicit attitude toward whatever vicissitudes of life may come within its purview.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin imperturbabilis, from in- 'not' + perturbare (see perturb).

Definition of imperturbable in US English:

imperturbable

adjectiveˌɪmpərˈtərbəb(ə)lˌimpərˈtərbəb(ə)l
  • Unable to be upset or excited; calm.

    不受打搅的,不易激动的,冷静的,沉着的

    an imperturbable tranquility

    一种打不乱的宁静。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His distaste for big inert words - words like omniscient, impassable and imperturbable, which he finds other theologians using to describe God - inspires his own desire for accessibility.
    • But emotionally he found it extremely difficult to resign himself to the disappearance of that invigorating militancy and that imperturbable self-assurance that had marked the working class in the 1970s.
    • In fact, it would be in deep trouble if it was relying on the utterly solid, sweet-natured and imperturbable country boy for dramatic tension.
    • One secret of the success of the English was, perhaps, their imperturbable tolerance.
    • The fax was pouring out messages, the telephone had barely stopped and the loyal secretary was still at her station in the office, cool and imperturbable as ever.
    • She looked down and felt a strange sense of imperturbable calm.
    • Buddhism is the pursuit of inner-peace through meditation - through his own, diligent efforts, the Buddhist hopes to arrive at this imperturbable, sanguine state of being.
    • Earl Alexander was a military commander with little taste for panache but distinguished by imperturbable confidence.
    • Through what is called neutrality of tone, philosophical discourse must also guarantee the neutrality or at least the imperturbable serenity that should accompany the relation to the true and the universal.
    • But the square looks in on itself, exuding an air of imperturbable gentility.
    • I was imperturbable at work, never losing my patience or raising my voice.
    • I had various curious cases against him at the Bar - hard and evenly fought battles - in which he was imperturbable.
    • It would be difficult to praise his work as Book Review Editor more highly than it deserves, and those of us who have worked with him most closely will miss his imperturbable good humor and complete reliability.
    • Despite the exclamation mark, he talks in the flat, imperturbable vowels of Sussex, his voice rising not so much in volume as in exasperation.
    • This ice has a character different from the clear, unblemished ice, as if all the hardship of those periods congealed to create a solid, imperturbable substance.
    • On the contrary, when all others have given up in despair, these persons stand imperturbable in the face of peril, relying for support not on material things, but on the soundness of reason and on their own superior judgement.
    • The prosecutors liked me because my professional experience as a media researcher had steeled me against public abuse and made me imperturbable under cross examination.
    • We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
    • It's very much like the radiance of falling in love, but it's not the ordinary falling in love where we're still involved in attachment and aversion; it's a radiance that is imperturbable because totally ultimate.
    • It felt classy and utterly imperturbable - the sort of place where the band might play Stormy Weather in a raging typhoon.
    Synonyms
    self-possessed, composed, collected, calm, cool, calm, and collected, as cool as a cucumber, cool-headed, self-controlled, poised, tranquil, serene, relaxed, easy-going, unexcitable, even-tempered, placid, sedate, phlegmatic

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin imperturbabilis, from in- ‘not’ + perturbare (see perturb).

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