unflappable
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
源自un- + flap (「使...沮喪」) + -able。
發音[編輯]
形容詞[編輯]
unflappable (比較級 more unflappable,最高級 most unflappable)
- 臨危不懼的,沉着冷靜的 (自1954年)
- 近義詞: collected、cool、even-keeled
- 反義詞: 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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