untouchable
英 [ʌn'tʌtʃəb(ə)l]
美[ʌn'tʌtʃəbl]
- adj. 达不到的；不可批评的；不可捉摸的
词态变化
复数: untouchables;
中文词源
untouchable 不可触摸的，贱民
un-, 不，非，touchable, 可接触的。该词通常用来指印度种姓制度的贱民，高种姓阶层不可用身体直接接触的人。
英英释意
- 1. belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
英文词源
- untouchable (adj.)
- 1560s, "immaterial," from un- (1) "not" + touchable (see touch (v.)). Meaning "that legally cannot be interfered with" is recorded from 1734. Meaning "too loathsome or defiling to be touched" is recorded from 1873. The noun, in reference to a hereditary low caste of India, is attested from 1909; the term and the restrictions were made illegal in India in 1947.
实用场景例句
- Given his political connections, he thought he was untouchable.
- 他有一些政界关系，所以自认为谁也管不了他。
牛津词典
- The department's budget is untouchable.
- 这个部门的预算是不容变动的。
牛津词典
- I want to make it clear, however, that no one is untouchable in this investigation.
- 但我想说明白一点，这次调查谁都逃不了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- A lot of the players began to feel they were untouchable.
- 许多球手开始觉得自己天下无敌。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He was born an untouchable in a very poor village in south India.
- 他出身贱民，生于印度南部一个非常贫困的村子。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Politicians once thought untouchable have been brought to trial for corruption.
- 那些曾经无法无天的政治家们也因腐败而受到审判.
期刊摘选
- For most people limits are untouchable. For the successful they are challenges.
- 众人在极限面前望而生畏, 成功者将它视为新一轮挑战.
期刊摘选
- Most importantly, to unionists grammar schools represent continuity and social conservatism, and are pretty much untouchable.
- 对工会党来说,最重要的是文法学校代表着连续性和社会对话, 而且是不可动摇的.
期刊摘选
- All the articles are untouchable the museum.
- 展览馆内一切物品禁止触摸.
期刊摘选
- This youth has never shown remorse and he felt he was untouchable.
- 他从来没有对此行为表示后悔,甚至还觉得他是不可侵犯的.
期刊摘选
- Removed dirt, dust, grease and tin from tiny space and untouchable area by ultrasonic technology.
- 采用超声波技术,清除微孔内及触不及的污垢, 灰尘, 油脂及余锡等.
期刊摘选
- Modern science considers nothing untouchable.
- 现代科学认为没有一件事是不能批评的.
辞典例句
- No hard an ensemble . The show moves forward. There are very untouchable actors on the show.
- 到目前也没觉得太难受,这个剧讲的角色很多, 还要继续往下发展,没有哪个演员是一动不动不可取代的.
期刊摘选
- I am going to find out just how untouchable you are.
- 我要试试看你到底是不是老虎屁股摸不得.
辞典例句
- For the first time criticism was directed at a hitherto untouchable target.
- 批评首次指向了一个至今不可触及的对象.
期刊摘选
- Arsenal are untouchable when Robert is on song.
- 他表现出色时阿森纳是不可战胜的.
期刊摘选
- In most museums such articles are untouchable.
- 在大多数博物馆这些物品都是不能碰的.
期刊摘选
- Therefore , people are convinced that the end of U.S. dollar era will not be untouchable.
- 人们有理由相信美元时代的终结将不再是遥不可及的事情.
期刊摘选
- All the articles are untouchable in most museums.
- 大多数的博物馆里的所有物品都是禁止触摸的.
期刊摘选
- All the articles are untouchable in the museum.
- 译文:博物馆内的一切展品禁止触摸.
期刊摘选
- They said because untouchable they can't eat in the same place.
- 村民们说因为那些孩子是贱民,贱民不能和他们一起吃饭.
期刊摘选
- All the articles in the museum are untouchable.
- 博物馆内一切展品禁止触摸.
期刊摘选
- But this does not mean that every sentence is a definitive and untouchable Word.
- 但是,这并不意味着圣经中的每句话都具有权威或不可触摸的圣言.
期刊摘选
- Existing paragraphs are untouchable, but new ones can be added between older ones.
- 已有的段落不能改变, 但新的段落可以添加到旧段落之间.
About Face 3交互设计精髓
- A veiled woman of the Untouchable caste a photo while sweeping outside her home in India.
- 印度一个遮盖头部的低等种姓家的女子.
期刊摘选
- Domingos is untouchable as far as we are concerned.
- 对于我们来说,多明戈是遥不可及的人.
期刊摘选
- To you, loneliness is real , yet unacknowledged, unnameable and untouchable.
- 孤独对你来说, 是不可说不可承认不可体会的一种存在.
期刊摘选
- Given his political connections, he thought he was untouchable.
- 他有一些政界关系，所以自认为谁也管不了他。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- I want to make it clear, however, that no one is untouchable in this investigation.
- 但我想说明白一点，这次调查谁都逃不了。
柯林斯例句