unflappable
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自un- + flap (“使...沮丧”) + -able。
发音[编辑]
形容词[编辑]
unflappable (比较级 more unflappable, 最高级 most unflappable)
- 临危不惧的,沉着冷静的 (自1954年)
- 近义词: collected、cool、even-keeled
- 反义词: flappable
- 1959, The Economist, 卷 190:
- The whole thing looked remarkably like an implacable force meeting an unflappable object.
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- 1978, James D. Margach, The abuse of power: the war between Downing Street and the media from Lloyd George to Callaghan:
- It was for this reason that when Lord Hailsham first described Harold Macmillan as "unflappable'", it became an instant catchword, distancing the incoming Prime Minister from his predecessor
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