This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable.
这种污染在很大程度上是不可逆转的。
经济学人-文艺
By such tiny glances and irrecoverable moments lives are changed, a lesson that reaches beyond sport.
但是这种伎俩和自私的光景被某种高于体育的精神改变了。
美国原版语文第六册
The substance he has eaten up, is irrecoverable. The future can not trouble his past. He has nothing to apprehend.
他搞垮的东西已经无可挽救了,未来不会困扰他的过去,他没有什么好担心的。
Brideshead Revisited
Oxford, submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as lioness, so quickly have the waters come flooding in.
牛津现在被淹没并被抹杀,像母狮一样无法恢复,水很快就泛滥成灾。
还乡
If the path is well known the difficulty at such times of keeping therein is not altogether great, from its familiar feel to the feet; but once lost it is irrecoverable.
One must put one's whole being into a great picture, and then to give effect to one hundredth part of what one has put in a representation of a fleeting, irrecoverable impression.
This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it — I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.