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词汇 unanswerable
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Definition of unanswerable in English:

unanswerable

adjectiveʌnˈɑːns(ə)rəb(ə)lˌənˈæns(ə)rəb(ə)l
  • 1Unable to be answered.

    不能答复的;无法答复的

    unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality

    无法解答的有关我们自身总有一死的问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And even as you hear yourself ask, ‘Who is the fairest’, you realise that you have invited in so many other unanswerable questions.
    • She paced around her bedroom waiting for answers to questions which were unanswerable.
    • It perhaps remains an unanswerable question since disciplines of knowledge and their institutional base are infinitely varied and certainly without straightforward, linear pathways.
    • Therefore all questions posed about entities outside the universe are ultimately unanswerable, though proposed answers vary in their plausibility.
    • The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
    • I'm going to ask Dick the unanswerable show business question, what works?
    • I would venture to suggest, that for many families, the notebooks they clutch in their sweaty hands are often more like prayer books that help them search for answers to the often unanswerable questions they face.
    • After drinking too much wine, and finding it a little difficult to type, the dizzy blonde returns to ponder the biggest, most unanswerable question of all, in every situation.
    • The only person who could feasibly answer such unanswerable questions would be an actual dead author.
    • People can be left feeling rejected, isolated and always having to deal with the unanswerable question of why.
    • Likewise, wherever you study, there's always the unanswerable question of whether it would have been better done somewhere else.
    • Someone has got to answer the unanswerable question.
    • Rather, it presents a collection of ideas and findings by people who have been grappling with big, unanswerable questions all their lives.
    • And so we're going to be faced with all these unanswerable questions, and maybe we won't learn some of the lessons.
    • Although the initial horror has passed, the news cycle-with its insatiable appetite, continues to demand to be fed with more stories, more coverage, more answers to unanswerable questions.
    • The question, though, that I m asking, is not so much how these crimes are handled - it s more the unanswerable question of why are these crimes happening?
    • But that is unknowable, the unanswerable question.
    • Because no attempts were made to re-interview informants, we are left with questions that are either unanswerable or the answers to which can only be deduced from other informants' replies.
    • Why don't you spend more time writing what you're supposed to be writing, and less time making up unanswerable questions that make us look like we don't know what we're talking about?
    • The unanswered questions may be unanswerable, but the attempt should be made.
    Synonyms
    insoluble, unsolvable, insolvable, unresolvable, unexplainable, inexplicable, unascertainable
    1. 1.1 Unable to be disclaimed or proved wrong.
      不可驳斥的;无法否认的
      the case for abolishing the fee is unanswerable

      废除此项费用的理由是无法驳倒的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Having just returned from Iceland - a country which sits on top of the site where the two tectonic plates of Europe and America meet - I feel I have confronted evidence which makes the case for global warming virtually unanswerable.
      • Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable; this may be observed specially in the two or three commonest kinds of madness.
      • They need not accept as unknowable and unanswerable the mystery that entered their lives, almost destroyed them, and turned their worlds upside down.
      • But its final gesture is insinuating and unanswerable.
      • The Crown's case here that they would be in an impossible position if they had to prove both dishonesty and carelessness seems to me unanswerable.
      • I could not even defend myself, because the charge of racism and racial insensitivity is ultimately unanswerable.
      • If - I have to use that word again, since the messages remain mixed - this is indeed what happens, it really will be an unanswerable demonstration that the game is up for worthwhile reform under Labour.
      • The case for acting on the basis of good intelligence to discover and prevent terrorism is obviously unanswerable.
      • Yet, in our view, such problems are answerable whereas the scientific evidence for an old Earth and old universe seems unanswerable.
      • MP] assumes its points of contention - some valid, some invalid - are under its terms and conditions unanswerable and unassailable.
      • The political argument for restraint is straightforward and, it seems to me, unanswerable.
      Synonyms
      irrefutable, inarguable, unarguable, indisputable, undeniable, incontestable, incontrovertible
      conclusive, absolute, positive
      rare irrefragable

Derivatives

  • unanswerability

  • noun
  • unanswerably

  • adverb
    • Your Honours, we endeavour to make the point that here, unanswerably, there is singling out and discrimination.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Upon that view of the transaction on this day, it seems to me that, unanswerably it must be seen to be a harsh and unconscionable bargain as far as Mrs Goff was concerned.
      • He pointed out, unanswerably, that, because Dr Salahuddin had been the only defendant to the action and because the action against him had been dismissed, the action did not exist any more.
      • The other is irrelevant to grammar but unanswerably decisive on the legal point under discussion.
      • Gould systematically and unanswerably refutes each of these three essential components of Darwinian logic.
  • unanswerableness

  • noun

Definition of unanswerable in US English:

unanswerable

adjectiveˌənˈæns(ə)rəb(ə)lˌənˈans(ə)rəb(ə)l
  • 1Unable to be answered.

    不能答复的;无法答复的

    unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality

    无法解答的有关我们自身总有一死的问题。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because no attempts were made to re-interview informants, we are left with questions that are either unanswerable or the answers to which can only be deduced from other informants' replies.
    • I would venture to suggest, that for many families, the notebooks they clutch in their sweaty hands are often more like prayer books that help them search for answers to the often unanswerable questions they face.
    • Someone has got to answer the unanswerable question.
    • Therefore all questions posed about entities outside the universe are ultimately unanswerable, though proposed answers vary in their plausibility.
    • Likewise, wherever you study, there's always the unanswerable question of whether it would have been better done somewhere else.
    • I'm going to ask Dick the unanswerable show business question, what works?
    • Why don't you spend more time writing what you're supposed to be writing, and less time making up unanswerable questions that make us look like we don't know what we're talking about?
    • She paced around her bedroom waiting for answers to questions which were unanswerable.
    • Although the initial horror has passed, the news cycle-with its insatiable appetite, continues to demand to be fed with more stories, more coverage, more answers to unanswerable questions.
    • The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
    • After drinking too much wine, and finding it a little difficult to type, the dizzy blonde returns to ponder the biggest, most unanswerable question of all, in every situation.
    • The unanswered questions may be unanswerable, but the attempt should be made.
    • People can be left feeling rejected, isolated and always having to deal with the unanswerable question of why.
    • And even as you hear yourself ask, ‘Who is the fairest’, you realise that you have invited in so many other unanswerable questions.
    • The only person who could feasibly answer such unanswerable questions would be an actual dead author.
    • It perhaps remains an unanswerable question since disciplines of knowledge and their institutional base are infinitely varied and certainly without straightforward, linear pathways.
    • And so we're going to be faced with all these unanswerable questions, and maybe we won't learn some of the lessons.
    • Rather, it presents a collection of ideas and findings by people who have been grappling with big, unanswerable questions all their lives.
    • The question, though, that I m asking, is not so much how these crimes are handled - it s more the unanswerable question of why are these crimes happening?
    • But that is unknowable, the unanswerable question.
    Synonyms
    insoluble, unsolvable, insolvable, unresolvable, unexplainable, inexplicable, unascertainable
    1. 1.1 Unable to be disclaimed or proved wrong.
      不可驳斥的;无法否认的
      the case for abolishing the fee is unanswerable

      废除此项费用的理由是无法驳倒的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Having just returned from Iceland - a country which sits on top of the site where the two tectonic plates of Europe and America meet - I feel I have confronted evidence which makes the case for global warming virtually unanswerable.
      • The political argument for restraint is straightforward and, it seems to me, unanswerable.
      • Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable; this may be observed specially in the two or three commonest kinds of madness.
      • Yet, in our view, such problems are answerable whereas the scientific evidence for an old Earth and old universe seems unanswerable.
      • The case for acting on the basis of good intelligence to discover and prevent terrorism is obviously unanswerable.
      • The Crown's case here that they would be in an impossible position if they had to prove both dishonesty and carelessness seems to me unanswerable.
      • They need not accept as unknowable and unanswerable the mystery that entered their lives, almost destroyed them, and turned their worlds upside down.
      • But its final gesture is insinuating and unanswerable.
      • If - I have to use that word again, since the messages remain mixed - this is indeed what happens, it really will be an unanswerable demonstration that the game is up for worthwhile reform under Labour.
      • I could not even defend myself, because the charge of racism and racial insensitivity is ultimately unanswerable.
      • MP] assumes its points of contention - some valid, some invalid - are under its terms and conditions unanswerable and unassailable.
      Synonyms
      irrefutable, inarguable, unarguable, indisputable, undeniable, incontestable, incontrovertible
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