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irrepressible

/ir-i-pres-uh-buhl/US // ˌɪr ɪˈprɛs ə bəl //UK // (ˌɪrɪˈprɛsəbəl) //

不可抗拒的,不可阻挡的,不可抗拒,不可阻挡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incapable of being repressed or restrained; uncontrollable: irrepressible laughter.

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Examples

  • The exhibition, organized by curator Molly Donovan and drawing heavily on works donated by the irrepressible collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, was lightly traveled when I saw it earlier this month.

  • My Unorthodox Life, whose nine-episode first season just arrived on the service, is yet another story of an irrepressible woman escaping her ultra-Orthodox prison.

  • When he bucks doctors’ orders to attend an international conference weeks after surgery to remove a brain tumor, it was his rakish nature and irrepressible will.

  • Suppressed, banned, scorned—it seems to speak to something within the human mind (or soul, if you like) that is irrepressible.

  • From a production standpoint, most of Napa has been lucky and irrepressible in the aftermath.

  • He was grounded for a few days, but fortunately for us, and for politics, his irrepressible good humor could not be squelched.

  • Then Germany scored first, in the 11th minute, through the irrepressible Thomas Müller.

  • And now all of a sudden I find myself consumed by an immense, irrepressible wrath.

  • Thus was he spared the look of utter loathing, of unconquerable, irrepressible disgust that leapt into her countenance.

  • It was Jenny's sympathy on this first night, when awakened by Ruth's irrepressible agony, that had made the bond between them.

  • She had an irrepressible longing for a few minutes' change of scene after her night of watching.

  • Prince Waldemar broke into an irrepressible fit of laughter and clapped Kaulmann on the shoulder.

  • That struggle is an irrepressible conflict existing in all nature, and from which man cannot escape.