| 单词 | incapable |
| 释义 | incapableWord family noun capability ≠ incapability adjective capable ≠ incapable adverb capably incapably in·ca·pa·ble /ɪnˈkeɪpəbəl/ ●○○ AWL adjectiveadj [not before noun]CAN'T not able to do something 无能力〔做某事〕的 OPP capable incapable of He seemed incapable of understanding how she felt. 他似乎不能理解她的感受。 Seventy-five percent of the electorate believe his party is incapable of government. 75%的选民都认为他领导的政党无能力执政。 The stroke rendered her incapable of speech. 中风令她丧失了语言能力。 5Don’t say ‘incapable to do something’. Say incapable of doing something. 不要说 ‘incapable to do something’. 而要说 incapable of doing something. —incapability /ɪnˌkeɪpəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountableU] n Grammar Someone is incapable of doing something: He is incapable of lying. ✗Don’t say: He is incapable to lie.Examples from the Corpus incapable• Utterly without designs, equipment, opportunities, he felt incapable of despair.• Some analysts express concern that the new systems will be less secure and incapable of doing donkey work like batch processing.• Must we then conclude that the Zande are in these terms irrational, incapable of rational, cause-and-effect reasoning?• But it certainly undermines the idea that gay men, as men, are biologically incapable of restraint.• The schools, in fact, seemed almost incapable of self-governance or self-reform.• Marge was incapable of sensing anything, Tom thought.• She was incoherent and incapable of unassisted movement. incapable of• She is an elderly woman who is physically incapable of caring for herself.• The present leaders seem incapable of improving the situation. |
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