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单词 irredeemable
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Definition of irredeemable in English:

irredeemable

adjective ɪrɪˈdiːməb(ə)lˌɪ(r)rəˈdiməb(ə)l
  • 1Not able to be saved, improved, or corrected.

    不可救药的;无法挽回的;无法改正的

    so many irredeemable mistakes have been made

    犯了这么多无法补救的错误。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My other reaction to the post is how quick we are as Christians to write someone off as irredeemable, as if we make that decision.
    • But then again, maybe I'm just an irredeemable optimist.
    • But guitar lessons weren't much better than my irredeemable attempts to learn the recorder.
    • But Ambler's cynics are irredeemable, whereas Furst's are usually amenable to a little persuasion.
    • Gollum is ugly, scrawny, cunning, sneaky - and, by the time The Return of the King starts, completely irredeemable.
    • The Hyatt is a tour-guided pilgrim's hotel of irredeemable ghastliness.
    • So how do you distinguish the redeemable from the irredeemable?
    • In reality, pathologically murderous tyrants are fairly irredeemable.
    • The winner of their meeting at Templeville Road tomorrow evening will enhance their own position and deal an irredeemable blow to the losers.
    • He can drop back down to Austin and tap one of the truly irredeemable die-hards on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
    • For the latter, the act is unforgivable and the perpetrator irredeemable.
    • Sadly for the whole decade white American pop/rock was pretty much the aforementioned irredeemable disaster.
    • It's all a pity, because Elvis' reputation might be irredeemable by now.
    • Partly, this was because she was a genius, and her work made irredeemable confetti of a lot of little worldviews.
    • Golub describes them as his ‘most austere, irredeemable, and existentially fatalistic works’.
    • This ensured that the majority of children got a decent education; the flip side was that it left the irredeemable to pursue a murderous path through their neighbourhood
    • Dark, menacing, confusing, oppressive - I won't go on - it's irredeemable in my book.
    • He remains curiously aloof and is one of the writer's greatest challenges - a man who can't be reached: unconvinced, irredeemable.
    • More often than not, tribute albums are irredeemable junk.
    • Though he might be tarnished slightly in his home state, this is far from irredeemable, and he is well liked and respected nationally.
    Synonyms
    inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened
  • 2(of paper currency) for which the issuing authority does not undertake to pay coin.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Constitution still prohibits the use of irredeemable currency and synthetic credit.
    • In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime.
    • The managers of the regime of irredeemable currency are either unaware of or tend to ignore the bias they have themselves introduced into speculation.
    • It started with the U.S. Treasury defaulting on its gold obligation to foreigners in 1971, thereby foisting a regime of irredeemable currency upon the world.
    • However, it is important to note that the discount on irredeemable currency, although obviously going to 100 percent, is never doing it along a straight line.
    1. 2.1 (of securities) on which no date is given for repayment of the capital sum.
      (证券)无偿还期的;不能赎回的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Pibs are irredeemable shares that pay a fixed rate of interest.
      • Fraught bond negotiations concluded with the trustees selling 7.3 per cent thirty-year irredeemable gold bonds.

Derivatives

  • irredeemability

  • nounɪrɪdiːməˈbɪlɪti
    • The rising specter of irredeemability is stalking us.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Capitalist Realism insists on the irredeemability of human beings, the impossibility of Justice, the inevitability of corruption…
  • irredeemably

  • adverb ˌɪrɪˈdiːməbliˌɪ(r)rəˈdiməbli
    • Each has been corrupted by its occupation and seen its reputation irredeemably tarnished by the harsh, repressive and trigger-happy behaviour of its soldiers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Relying as they must on our current ideas of what is true, important, and right, our judgments about progress can begin to appear irredeemably parochial.
      • Or is that just a sign that I'm irredeemably old-fashioned?
      • Far from protecting Thailand's democracy, they could by their action irredeemably shatter it, inviting, in the worst case, violence and military intervention.
      • Perhaps men are irredeemably sexist.

Definition of irredeemable in US English:

irredeemable

adjectiveˌɪ(r)rəˈdiməb(ə)lˌi(r)rəˈdēməb(ə)l
  • 1Not able to be saved, improved, or corrected.

    不可救药的;无法挽回的;无法改正的

    so many irredeemable mistakes have been made

    犯了这么多无法补救的错误。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's all a pity, because Elvis' reputation might be irredeemable by now.
    • But then again, maybe I'm just an irredeemable optimist.
    • Partly, this was because she was a genius, and her work made irredeemable confetti of a lot of little worldviews.
    • Dark, menacing, confusing, oppressive - I won't go on - it's irredeemable in my book.
    • Sadly for the whole decade white American pop/rock was pretty much the aforementioned irredeemable disaster.
    • So how do you distinguish the redeemable from the irredeemable?
    • This ensured that the majority of children got a decent education; the flip side was that it left the irredeemable to pursue a murderous path through their neighbourhood
    • My other reaction to the post is how quick we are as Christians to write someone off as irredeemable, as if we make that decision.
    • More often than not, tribute albums are irredeemable junk.
    • For the latter, the act is unforgivable and the perpetrator irredeemable.
    • He remains curiously aloof and is one of the writer's greatest challenges - a man who can't be reached: unconvinced, irredeemable.
    • In reality, pathologically murderous tyrants are fairly irredeemable.
    • Golub describes them as his ‘most austere, irredeemable, and existentially fatalistic works’.
    • But guitar lessons weren't much better than my irredeemable attempts to learn the recorder.
    • Gollum is ugly, scrawny, cunning, sneaky - and, by the time The Return of the King starts, completely irredeemable.
    • The winner of their meeting at Templeville Road tomorrow evening will enhance their own position and deal an irredeemable blow to the losers.
    • Though he might be tarnished slightly in his home state, this is far from irredeemable, and he is well liked and respected nationally.
    • But Ambler's cynics are irredeemable, whereas Furst's are usually amenable to a little persuasion.
    • He can drop back down to Austin and tap one of the truly irredeemable die-hards on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
    • The Hyatt is a tour-guided pilgrim's hotel of irredeemable ghastliness.
    Synonyms
    inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened
  • 2(of paper currency) for which the issuing authority does not undertake to pay coin.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime.
    • The managers of the regime of irredeemable currency are either unaware of or tend to ignore the bias they have themselves introduced into speculation.
    • The Constitution still prohibits the use of irredeemable currency and synthetic credit.
    • It started with the U.S. Treasury defaulting on its gold obligation to foreigners in 1971, thereby foisting a regime of irredeemable currency upon the world.
    • However, it is important to note that the discount on irredeemable currency, although obviously going to 100 percent, is never doing it along a straight line.
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