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insurmountable

/in-ser-moun-tuh-buhl/US // ˌɪn sərˈmaʊn tə bəl //UK // (ˌɪnsəˈmaʊntəbəl) //

不可逾越的,不可逾越,不可逾越的障碍,不可克服的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.

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Examples

  • The current, anti-democratic and intellectually dishonest Republican Party is an insurmountable barrier to the development of a viable alternative to the existing Democratic Party.

  • These challenges of intermittency and geography are not insurmountable—batteries and water can store energy, and better transmission systems can be built.

  • By the end of the summer, the anxiety had become insurmountable and he left his job.

  • Some serve as a foil — a common enemy players can rally around to come together and ultimately overcome insurmountable odds.

  • The final gaps, though, proved insurmountable and created a level of bitterness, according to their letters.

  • But while the obstacles to evidence-based governance are formidable, they are not insurmountable.

  • Each one seems a mile high, and the entire flight an insurmountable obstacle.

  • That defeat was driven largely by Romney losing women voters by an insurmountable 11 points.

  • They do not reflect any intrinsic or insurmountable military advantage.

  • Despite the possibly insurmountable challenge that lay before them, Bernstein and company forged ahead.

  • Thus age and avarice can always over-leap barriers which, to the young and romantic, are insurmountable.

  • The difficulty of conveying heavy weights up the mountain foot-paths was almost insurmountable.

  • Situated as we are, in the United States, many, and almost insurmountable obstacles present themselves.

  • In the meantime Lord Ebrington's motion interposed insurmountable difficulties in the way of negotiations.

  • If the young man is industrious, and come of honest parentage, his poverty may be no such insurmountable obstacle.