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unquenchable

/kwench/US // kwɛntʃ //UK // (kwɛntʃ) //

欲罢不能,永不停息,永不止息,永不止步

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to slake, satisfy, or allay.
    • : to put out or extinguish.
    • : to cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.
    • : to subdue or destroy; overcome; quell: to quench an uprising.
    • : Electronics. to terminate by application of a voltage.

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Examples

  • It takes massive amounts of energy to pump San Diego’s main source – the Colorado River – to quench demands already.

  • “When I looked at it, it seemed unquenchable and endless and infinite,” he remembers.

  • Harold's unquenchable desire, the axis mundi of his existence.

  • The muscle soreness soon escalated into a storm of extreme symptoms—crippling pain, flu-like weakness, unquenchable thirst.

  • She left the convent in 1997, went back to school, and later wrote a memoir about her experience, An Unquenchable Thirst.

  • But locking up Ai simply made clear the power of his kind of oppositional art, and its global impact, and how unquenchable it is.

  • Though stern and even hard in his official duties, he had unquenchable natural affections.

  • There were aspects of that unquenchable agitation that were absolutely heroic and aspects that were absolutely pitiful.

  • He had discovered a new quality, the same heroic soul that her brother Philip had, the unquenchable courage of the great marshal.

  • Generous and full of exuberance, he had some warm friends whom he amused extremely by his unquenchable enthusiasm and good humour.

  • Tow dipped in it was fastened to the heads of arrows, which thus became carriers of unquenchable flame.