[每日] implacable (a) 無法安撫的
Word of the Day (Tuesday October 7, 2008)
implacable \im-PLAK-uh-bull\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/674SG
Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified;
inexorable; as, an implacable foe.
For it is my office to prosecute the guilty with implacable zeal.
-- Paola Capriolo, Floria Tosca (translated by Liz Heron)
He... then continued on up the road, his shoulders bent beneath
the implacable sun.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master
She conducted her life and her work with all the steady and
implacable seriousness of a steamroller.
-- "The Stein Salon Was The First Museum of Modern Art", New York
Times, December 1, 1968
Implacable ultimately comes from Latin implacabilis, from in-,
not + placabilis, placable, from placo, placare, to soothe, calm,
appease.
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