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irrevocable

/ih-rev-uh-kuh-buhl/US // ɪˈrɛv ə kə bəl //UK // (ɪˈrɛvəkəbəl) //

不可撤消的,不可撤消,不可撤销的,不可撤销

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.

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Examples

  • He’s at the sharp end of irrevocable disruption to online advertising and yet is rarely thrown when pressed on the future of digital advertising.

  • It is also crucially important to hold the previous administration — and especially those within it who crafted and implemented these harmful policies that have done irrevocable damage to our country’s reputation around the world — accountable.

  • There is something irrevocable-feeling about couples tying the knot on the steps of the county courthouse.

  • She filed for divorce in August 2009 because of an “irrevocable breakdown.”

  • She is right that, for some, the stain of humiliation can indeed be irrevocable.

  • First: we are not committed to a life sentence—nothing is really irrevocable, not even marriage (though I used to think so).

  • It is different because it ends a life, and for that reason it is irrevocable.

  • Principal or agent, my decision, Doctor, is irrevocable—I refuse to serve your accursed ends further.

  • It seemed to the poor child as if Mrs Mason's words were irrevocable, and, that being so, she was shut out from every house.

  • Thyrsis would face the blunder they had made—it might have been avoided so easily, and now it was irrevocable!

  • If he were to mail it, it would be irrevocable; and it would probably mean that he would lose Corydon.

  • So I was able to shake off that earlier fear of some final and irrevocable destruction truncating all my schemes.