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单词 ungovernable
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Definition of ungovernable in English:

ungovernable

adjectiveʌnˈɡʌv(ə)nəb(ə)lˌənˈɡəvərnəb(ə)l
  • Impossible to control or govern.

    无法控制的;难以治理的

    an ungovernable impulse to run away
    the country had become ungovernable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was a policy which created a classroom revolution - one which has caused chaos and misery for countless thousands of children and their teachers and made many schools all but ungovernable.
    • If the laws are unfavourable, we must make the country ungovernable.
    • The Kabul government no longer faces a movement capable of taking over the country; rather, it faces regional insurgencies, capable of making the country ungovernable.
    • Someone unruly was ungovernable or disorderly; the modern sense is a weakening of this.
    • In my everyday work as a doctor, for example, I see the results of ungoverned, and consequently ungovernable, passion: that is to say, murder, mayhem, and misery.
    • The public sphere in many ways had become ungovernable, in that it was difficult if not impossible to retain control over how products were consumed.
    • But the message was undoubtedly to the world, to the coalition, to the U.N. community as a whole, that Iraq was ungovernable under present conditions.
    • It also praised the reaction of New Yorkers to the tragedy: ‘The supposedly ungovernable city showed it could govern itself under the most terrifying pressure.’
    • It was a calculated, callous attempt to undermine Castro and the Cuban Government, essentially bludgeoning the Cubans to the point where the country would become ungovernable.
    • But the unmistakable impression is that they are now putting short-term partisanship ahead of good policy by trying to make the House ungovernable.
    • I try to control it but if it slips out it is ungovernable.
    • That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.
    • But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
    • Part of Allawi's mission was to counter the TV coverage depicting Iraq as a bloody battlefield hurtling toward ungovernable chaos and unwinnable civil war.
    • The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms.
    • Someone's going to do something about it and since so much spam comes from other, ungovernable countries, a legislative solution won't help much.
    • But he came out an admirer, one who believes that he took on a city that seemed all but ungovernable and came closer to governing it than any mayor in modern times.
    • What is clear is that the photograph, in the editor's own words, fitted into an editorial view that portrayed Iraq as ungovernable and chaotic.
    • Economic liberalization was then undertaken to restore the fiscal base, and thence government control over what had become ungovernable economies.
    • It makes us question the balance between human control and the heretofore ungovernable forces we deemed natural.
    Synonyms
    uncontrollable, unmanageable, anarchic, chaotic, intractable
    unruly, disorderly, rebellious, riotous, wild, mutinous, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, undisciplined, disobedient
    without law and order

Derivatives

  • ungovernability

  • nounʌnɡʌv(ə)nəˈbɪlɪti
    • As of more than 20 days ago the Venezuelan people lead a National Civic Strike with the purpose of demanding a democratic solution to the current state of ungovernability.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The character's professional success, however, is a denial of the very assumption on which this entire genre rests: the wayward ungovernability of romantic fate.
      • He continued, ‘This situation of ungovernability will not be allowed to continue.’
      • I want to appeal to all people of the Eastern Cape to avoid anything that would create an impression that we promote anarchy or ungovernability in the department.
      • It was the ungovernability of the South, its population brutalized and corrupt to northern eyes, that convinced Turin that there was no alternative to administrative centralization on the French model.
  • ungovernably

  • adverbʌnˈɡʌv(ə)nəbliˌənˈɡəvərnəbli
    • Yet those same technological advances that made nation-states and empires governable now whisk capital and information ungovernably across their frontiers.

Definition of ungovernable in US English:

ungovernable

adjectiveˌənˈɡəvərnəb(ə)lˌənˈɡəvərnəb(ə)l
  • Impossible to control or govern.

    无法控制的;难以治理的

    an ungovernable impulse to run away
    the country had become ungovernable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
    • Someone unruly was ungovernable or disorderly; the modern sense is a weakening of this.
    • Part of Allawi's mission was to counter the TV coverage depicting Iraq as a bloody battlefield hurtling toward ungovernable chaos and unwinnable civil war.
    • But the message was undoubtedly to the world, to the coalition, to the U.N. community as a whole, that Iraq was ungovernable under present conditions.
    • It makes us question the balance between human control and the heretofore ungovernable forces we deemed natural.
    • It was a policy which created a classroom revolution - one which has caused chaos and misery for countless thousands of children and their teachers and made many schools all but ungovernable.
    • I try to control it but if it slips out it is ungovernable.
    • The public sphere in many ways had become ungovernable, in that it was difficult if not impossible to retain control over how products were consumed.
    • But the unmistakable impression is that they are now putting short-term partisanship ahead of good policy by trying to make the House ungovernable.
    • The Kabul government no longer faces a movement capable of taking over the country; rather, it faces regional insurgencies, capable of making the country ungovernable.
    • In my everyday work as a doctor, for example, I see the results of ungoverned, and consequently ungovernable, passion: that is to say, murder, mayhem, and misery.
    • What is clear is that the photograph, in the editor's own words, fitted into an editorial view that portrayed Iraq as ungovernable and chaotic.
    • It was a calculated, callous attempt to undermine Castro and the Cuban Government, essentially bludgeoning the Cubans to the point where the country would become ungovernable.
    • That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.
    • Economic liberalization was then undertaken to restore the fiscal base, and thence government control over what had become ungovernable economies.
    • If the laws are unfavourable, we must make the country ungovernable.
    • Someone's going to do something about it and since so much spam comes from other, ungovernable countries, a legislative solution won't help much.
    • It also praised the reaction of New Yorkers to the tragedy: ‘The supposedly ungovernable city showed it could govern itself under the most terrifying pressure.’
    • But he came out an admirer, one who believes that he took on a city that seemed all but ungovernable and came closer to governing it than any mayor in modern times.
    • The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms.
    Synonyms
    uncontrollable, unmanageable, anarchic, chaotic, intractable
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