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单词 unanswerable
释义
unanswerable
adjective
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/ʌnˈɑːn.sər.ə.bəl/us
/ʌnˈæn.sɚ.ə.bəl/

unanswerableadjective(CLEARLY TRUE)

formal
If anargumentorclaimis unanswerable,peoplecannotdisagreewith it because it is soclearlytrue:
（论点或说法）无可争辩的，不容反对的
Ineconomictermsthe need toreduceinflationis unanswerable.从经济学角度考虑，需要降低通货膨胀是毋庸置疑的。
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  • (as) sure as eggs is eggsidiom
  • and that's flat!idiom
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  • assuredly
  • decidedly
  • deffo
  • definite
  • definitely
  • definitive
  • mistake
  • nailsomethingon
  • nailed on
  • natch
  • not miss a beatidiom
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unanswerableadjective(WITHOUT AN ANSWER)

(of aquestion) without ananswer:
（问题）没有答案的，无法回答的
As to howlongthiswarwill last, it's an unanswerablequestion.至于这场战争会持续多久，没有人知道答案。
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  • fathomless
  • garble
  • get it into your thick headidiom
  • impalpable
  • impenetrable
  • indiscernible
  • labyrinthine
  • lost
  • non-intuitive
  • obscurely
  • obscurity
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  • wasted onsomeoneidiom
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(Definition ofunanswerablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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As palliative care physicians we are often in the position of staring, along with our patients, into the mysterious abyss of life's mostunanswerableand unknowable existential questions.
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The question 'why?' provesunanswerable; or rather, the answer refers us only to 'music's "need" or "lack" ' (p. 348) itself, a repeated but frustrated hermeneutic impulse.
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At the present time, with the possible exception of the fetal alcohol syndrome in which mental impairment is present in conjunction with gross physical malformation, the point isunanswerable.
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Others, however, may see it as a success to the extent that the government was forced to make concessions that would lead inevitably tounanswerablecriticism.
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The need is urgent, the case desperate and, in my estimation,unanswerable.
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He made an outstanding speech and his arguments wereunanswerable.
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I congratulate him on his success in achieving this debate and on his clarity and eloquence in putting anunanswerablecase.
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Many people who heard and read our debate wrote to me afterwards saying that our arguments wereunanswerable—and so they were.
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I find the argument for financing by a graduated contribution, a percentage of earnings, rather than a flat rate, to beunanswerable.
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The case in regard to mutton isunanswerable.
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I think there is anunanswerablecase for dealing properly with the problem of dumping and subsidised imports.
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I think the arguments that have been advanced against that at the moment areunanswerable.
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We have anunanswerablecase to put before the jury of the peoples of those countries.
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We have a majority for this measure, and, unusually, we haveunanswerablepublic consent following the referendum.
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In this debate, we have made the mistake of trying to answer theunanswerable.
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