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 inconceivable [`ɪnkən'sivəbl.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不能想象的, 想不到的, 难信的



    inconceivable
    [ adj ]
    totally unlikely
    <adj.all>


    Inconceivable \In`con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
    conceivable: cf. F. inconcevable.]
    Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind;
    not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known
    principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is
    inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular
    motion.

    It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance
    should represent an extended figure. --Locke.
    -- {In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`con*ceiv"a*bly}, adv.

    The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any
    subject to possess it. --A. Tucker.

    1. He said it "isn't inconceivable" that some Arrow employees might also lose jobs.
    2. It is "most unlikely, if not inconceivable" that supervisors will go back on what has been agreed, he said.
    3. Next year, Easter is early: April 3. It would be inconceivable for this to signal the end of the season.
    4. Turkey and Iran A regional role for Israel in the Middle East is no longer inconceivable, though it is still far from likely.
    5. It is inconceivable that the other 10 member states will soldier on with the battle to ratify a treaty that two have already rejected.
    6. It's inconceivable to Prin that the college will fold.
    7. And creating one would require amounts of energy that are inconceivable with any technology known today. Many physicists, including Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University, continue to maintain that time-travel is impossible.
    8. Nationalism was on the rise, and by the time Chaucer was a young man it was not inconceivable, as it would have been a generation earlier, to write in English.
    9. Shops and restaurants abound in a way that would have been inconceivable a year ago. But the transition to a market economy has brought its trials.
    10. Jeff Baum, manager of the Watertown airport, said Her was a veteran pilot and it was "inconceivable" why he was flying with an extra passenger in a storm.
    11. "If they had," he says, "it is inconceivable that the nonbanks would have extended so much." Some nonbanks' careless lending practices are evident in recent bankruptcy statistics.
    12. And "it is inconceivable" that the tax transactions were fraudulent under civil tax laws much less criminal tax laws, the statement said.
    13. "French cuisine is inconceivable without wine," he said.
    14. "It's almost inconceivable to me that people could make that much money," says Mr. Klinikowski, who earned $45,000 a year when AT&T laid him off in 1990 at age 59. "What do they do with it?
    15. A few years ago, when the Soviet threat loomed larger and the U.S. more clearly dominated the Western alliance, such divergence between the leading industrial nations would have been almost inconceivable.
    16. "It's not inconceivable that 20 to 30 percent of these people could report real improvement, but not for the reasons used by the manufacturers," he said. "But if 25 percent of the people who listen to these tapes stop smoking, that's great.
    17. Unless further heavy pressure is put on the government, it remains inconceivable that workers, for example, will be allowed to put out their own newspapers or pamphlets.
    18. Martin Oertel, a spokesman for IG Metal, West Germany's largest union, said: "It would be inconceivable for someone to simply close a plant here.
    19. For reasons that are hard to fathom, airlines arouse much the same sensitivity as national currencies; so much so that the prospect of full cabotage rights ever being accepted seemed inconceivable until quite recently.
    20. To a large extent this has happened already because it is inconceivable that a major British bank would be allowed to fail. This argument over compensation is now causing turmoil among occupational pension schemes.
    21. To get away from all these wealth-creating "resources" would be inconceivable, for what would the capitalists/industrialists do?
    22. The president's aim is to liberate Kuwait, but it is not inconceivable that the U.S. would expand its aims and drive upon Baghdad.
    23. What astonished me on the Ark Royal, and what would be found wholly inconceivable in civilian life, is that all this activity, all these wills, are directed towards one final end.
    24. It is far from inconceivable that the regime would try to incite some sort of showdown while its forces are still disciplined.
    25. City Council President Andrew Stein said it was inconceivable that the administration could give teachers a 5.5 percent pay raise on Monday "and then announce on Thursday that it was planning for 15,000 layoffs.
    26. Shuhei Sato, a senior vice president and head of the merchant banking unit at Sanwa Bank in New York, added: "What seemed like an expensive purchase a couple of years ago is now in a range that isn't inconceivable."
    27. Such a response, while not imminent, is certainly not inconceivable.
    28. He added that to Fascists, the Bologna bombing was "morally unacceptable and idealogically inconceivable." There was no immediate response from the prefect, Bruno Ciccone.
    29. It is not inconceivable that the real objective is a deadlock that would mean no bill at all.
    30. We pointed out that this could have 'a not inconceivable pernicious effect on the representation of this area in the European Parliament'.
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