• adj. 抑制不住的；壓服不了的

ir-,不，非，repress,壓抑，遏制。

irrepressible (adj.)

1767, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + repressible (see repress).

Increase of population, which is filling the States out to their very borders, together with a new and extended network of railroads and other avenues, and an internal commerce which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing the States into a higher and more perfect social unity or consolidation. Thus, these antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and collision results.

Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefor ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. [William H. Seward, speech at Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 2, 1858]

Related: Irrepressibly.

1. Jon's exuberance was irrepressible.

喬恩朝氣蓬勃，精力旺盛。

來自柯林斯例句

2. An amusement park is the perfect locale for a bunch of irrepressible youngsters to have all sorts of adventures.

游樂場是一幫精力過剩的年輕人尋求各種驚險刺激的絕佳場所。

來自辭典例句

3. You cannot keep her quiet for long ; she's irrepressible!

想讓她多安靜會兒可辦不到, 她總是歡蹦亂跳的!

來自辭典例句

4. " All right, " he said to himself, with an irrepressible frown, " let her sleep alone. "

“ 好吧, " 他對自己說, 忍不住皺緊了眉頭. " 就讓她一個人睡吧. ”

來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹

5. NEW YORK - E - mail is crippled , concussed by an irrepressible spam stream.

電子郵件是殘廢的, 因為有持續不斷的垃圾郵件沖擊.

來自互聯網