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单词 irrevocable
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Definition of irrevocable in English:

irrevocable

adjective ɪˈrɛvəkəb(ə)ləˈrɛvəkəb(ə)l
  • Not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final.

    不可改变的;不可取消的;最后的;最终的

    an irrevocable step

    无可挽回的一步。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But he ‘stepped back from the brink of radical or irrevocable acts against members of his ruling circle’.
    • It crosses the night sky like the moon; or else, like an actor, it crosses the stage, moving in an irrevocable pattern from origin to end.
    • It covers harm which will be suffered by a permanent market loss or irrevocable damage to the applicant's business reputation.
    • Multiple factors have contributed to this seemingly irrevocable reversal of fortunes.
    • The French company receives irrevocable commitments from over 50 per cent of shareholders.
    • They are spending a fortune preparing for this irrevocable step.
    • And thus the final bond is achieved, an irrevocable connection that can never be broken.
    • Violence by contrast represented an irrevocable gesture and was transformative.
    • Citizenship should be available after five years and be irrevocable.
    • I have an aversion to displacement, scars, irrevocable changes in a familiar landscape.
    • Debate raged around the dinner tables of the nation, causing irrevocable family feuds and superficial cutlery wounds.
    • Obviously, the existing damage, sustained over the past half century, is irrevocable but so much could be done to halt the decline and save what is left.
    • That's sport, and it has its own internal and irrevocable logic.
    • What later makes them binding, and therefore irrevocable, is the promisee's detrimental reliance on them.
    • Delicate ecosystems worldwide are threatened with irrevocable decline beneath the massed boots of latter-day pilgrims.
    • There is little in their emerging policy platform which I agree with, and there is an irrevocable divide between us on the issue of Europe.
    • You made your choice, and - as I assumed when I left home at the age of twenty - it was irrevocable.
    • It is an irrevocable change that needs to be accepted.
    • Take time to be clear and total before taking irrevocable decisions.
    • The resulting quarrel leads to an irrevocable separation.
    Synonyms
    irreversible, unrectifiable, irremediable, irreparable, unrepairable, beyond repair
    unalterable, unchangeable, immutable, final, binding, absolute, permanent, lasting
    Law peremptory, unappealable

Derivatives

  • irrevocability

  • noun ɪrɛvəkəˈbɪlɪtiˌɪ(r)ˌrɛvəkəˈbɪlədi
    • As used by Conner, the unique qualities of the watercolor felt tip pen are: immediacy and irrevocability.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The swiftness and irrevocability of the changes it had brought about left him with nothing he could use to rebuild his sense of being.
      • It secures publicity and transparency, she said, and added that the best aspect of it was the irrevocability of deals.
      • But when I think about it, the reality, the responsibility, the irrevocability of it, there's no spark, no enthusiasm.
      • In fact, the poet finds her most powerful tool to be one of the clearest markers of the irrevocability of the loss.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin irrevocabilis, from in- 'not' + revocabilis 'able to be revoked' (from the verb revocare).

Definition of irrevocable in US English:

irrevocable

adjectiveəˈrevəkəb(ə)ləˈrɛvəkəb(ə)l
  • Not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final.

    不可改变的;不可取消的;最后的;最终的

    an irrevocable step

    无可挽回的一步。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It covers harm which will be suffered by a permanent market loss or irrevocable damage to the applicant's business reputation.
    • Take time to be clear and total before taking irrevocable decisions.
    • But he ‘stepped back from the brink of radical or irrevocable acts against members of his ruling circle’.
    • You made your choice, and - as I assumed when I left home at the age of twenty - it was irrevocable.
    • The French company receives irrevocable commitments from over 50 per cent of shareholders.
    • Delicate ecosystems worldwide are threatened with irrevocable decline beneath the massed boots of latter-day pilgrims.
    • The resulting quarrel leads to an irrevocable separation.
    • They are spending a fortune preparing for this irrevocable step.
    • There is little in their emerging policy platform which I agree with, and there is an irrevocable divide between us on the issue of Europe.
    • That's sport, and it has its own internal and irrevocable logic.
    • It is an irrevocable change that needs to be accepted.
    • What later makes them binding, and therefore irrevocable, is the promisee's detrimental reliance on them.
    • Obviously, the existing damage, sustained over the past half century, is irrevocable but so much could be done to halt the decline and save what is left.
    • And thus the final bond is achieved, an irrevocable connection that can never be broken.
    • Debate raged around the dinner tables of the nation, causing irrevocable family feuds and superficial cutlery wounds.
    • I have an aversion to displacement, scars, irrevocable changes in a familiar landscape.
    • Citizenship should be available after five years and be irrevocable.
    • It crosses the night sky like the moon; or else, like an actor, it crosses the stage, moving in an irrevocable pattern from origin to end.
    • Violence by contrast represented an irrevocable gesture and was transformative.
    • Multiple factors have contributed to this seemingly irrevocable reversal of fortunes.
    Synonyms
    irreversible, unrectifiable, irremediable, irreparable, unrepairable, beyond repair

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin irrevocabilis, from in- ‘not’ + revocabilis ‘able to be revoked’ (from the verb revocare).

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