redoubtable

• adj. 可怕的；令人敬畏的

re-,表强调，doubt,怀疑，恐惧，-able,形容词后缀。即令人恐惧的，引申词义令人敬畏的。

1. inspiring fear;

"the formidable prospect of major surgery"

"a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston

"something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"

2. having or worthy of pride;

"redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"

"born of a redoubtable family"

redoubtable (adj.)

late 14c., from Old French redoutable (12c.), from redouter "to dread," from re-, intensive prefix, + douter "be afraid of" (see doubt (v.)).

He is a redoubtable fighter.

他是一位可敬的战士。

辞典例句

But Mr. Feng, knew what a redoubtable player the old man was and said nothing.

冯先生晓得刘四爷的厉害,没敢接碴儿.

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