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词根:intractable
adj.intractable 棘手的;难治的;倔强的;不听话的
adjective
not easily governed, managed, or directed
intractable problems
not easily relieved or cured
intractable pain
not easily manipulated or shaped
intractable metal
Latin intractabilis, from in- + tractabilis tractable
The first known use of intractable was in 1531
intransitiveadjective
not transitiveespecially: not having or containing a direct object
an intransitive verb
intransitiveadjective
not transitiveespecially: not having or containing a direct object
an intransitive verb
intramuscularadjective
located in, occurring in, or injected into a muscle
intramuraladjective
being, occurring, or undertaken within the limits usually of a school
intramural sports
intradermaladjective
situated or done within or between the layers of the skin
intractableadjective
not easily managed or controlled
an intractable child
not easily relieved or cured
intractable pain
1 Instead, he is working behind closed doors to shore up support from lawmakers, who much like voters appear intractably divided over when Britain should even leave the European Union.
2 “But what you learn from this history is how intractably linked our region’s growth was with the railroad.”
3 With one of the highest levels of public debt and intractably low employment, Lebanon seems incapable of providing basic public services like electricity, clean drinking water or reliable internet service.
4 We know ourselves to be intensely social, emotional, intractably embodied creatures.
5 The sins of the radicals tainted them all, a 43-page article in The Nation maintained, for respectability and radicalism were intractably intertwined for conservatives.
6 Conservatives argue CRT is bleeding into school curriculums teaching that America is intractably racist.
7 Just when matters seemed most intractably confused, along came another extraordinary figure with a novel approach.
8 He had fallen madly and intractably in love with horse racing from the moment he saw his first race as a child, and knew where he wanted his money to go.
9 Forty-eight years later, Israelis and Palestinians live intractably in a city that is unified in name but so often not in reality.
10 I am skeptical toward the growth projection, notwithstanding that it is related to Japan’s intractably perverse demographics.
11 And what is striking is that the improvement was down to the part of the current account that for the past 30 years has been intractably lacklustre, viz our net sales of goods and services.
12 For the same reasons—low population density and long distances—rural America is unattractive to Internet service providers, and has proven intractably difficult to connect to the Internet.
13 Yet no matter the medium - wine, fashion, photography, film - the aesthetic is always intractably and beguilingly her own.
14 And given the intractably ideological nature of French economics and the rigid hierarchy of the academic profession there, he’s never given much thought to returning home.
15 When he pitched out of there across the green in the exurbs of the hole to the fringe, he looked intractably bogey-bound.
16 Access to guns, too, is a special American problem that might render this society intractably more violent than peers around the world, barring fundamental reforms.
17 Collins uses footage from a GDR TV programme made by and for teachers, in which one expert witters so intractably about socialist education that Collins fades him out.
18 There is only one establishment, and it wants immigration to create an infinite pool of cheap labor and an endless supply of perpetually aggrieved, intractably poor victims it can cynically exploit for political gain.
19 I don’t want to put you off with my very first sentence, but we are intractably imperfect creatures.
20 Man acts as if he is not stronger than Mother Nature and Mother Nature behaves as an intractably stubborn creature, winning in the end.