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ungovernable

/uhn-guhv-er-nuh-buhl/US // ʌnˈgʌv ər nə bəl //UK // (ʌnˈɡʌvənəbəl) //

不可治理的,不可治理,无法治理的,无法治理

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.

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Examples

  • After all, women who had “ungovernable” personalities and “strong resolution…plenty of what is termed nerve” were literally textbook examples of female insanity.

  • Under a more centralized system the place would have been ungovernable.

  • There would be no end to the chaos that would ensue, making the country virtually ungovernable.

  • The ANC responded with a call to make the black areas ungovernable.

  • It implied courage, valor, dignity, and an attachment to personal freedom that made people almost ungovernable.

  • And he has always gotten a kick out of his rep as the ungovernable—maybe even a bit unbalanced—member of Team Obama.

  • But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

  • Having been allowed to have his own way while small, he has cultivated an ungovernable desire to do as he pleases.

  • So popular and so ungovernable was the habit, that there is hardly any rational means to be found for accounting for it.

  • As the soldier kicked him up again, and continued to drag him along by the neck, the audience became ungovernable in their rage.

  • On the other hand they were likely to prove intractable and ungovernable, and many preferred even suicide to servitude.