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单词 imponderable
释义
imponderable
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ɪmˈpɒn.dər.ə.bəl/us
/ɪmˈpɑːn.dər.ə.bəl/
something that cannot beguessedorcalculatedbecause it iscompletelyunknown:
（效果或结果）无法预测（或估量）的
There are too many imponderables to make anaccurateforecast.无法估量的事情太多，因而难以作出准确的预测。
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imponderable

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(Definition ofimponderablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimponderable

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For out-of-equilibrium governments, this is animponderablesince experimentation reveals that changing the magnitude of shocks to party positions does not uniformly change robustness levels.
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There is a common thread, he asserts, that is tied up in the oftenimponderabledefinition of character.
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This approach will not answer theimponderablequestions, but it will assist the families and the caregivers to navigate turbulent and uncharted waters.
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The effect of population growth on the voting population also has imponderables.
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The neonatologist must not shy away from theimponderable; instead the neonatologist must face each case, welcome its challenge, and face the uncertainty.
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Screening for prostate and lung cancer raises similar imponderables.
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The first three were at the vanguard of experimental physics, extracting from the hitherto mysterious ether (which had previously been assigned divine attributes) theimponderablefluids of heat and electricity.
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In the course of these transfers, affective imponderables get lost; and these not only supplement insufficient objective qualifications, but, in practice, they alone cause sufficient ones to be acted upon.
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One of the great difficulties is the series ofimponderablemotives which we have to deal with in this situation.
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But if we funk the issue and do nothing until the imponderables resolve themselves, we shall not have a ship.
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Possibly, but imponderables were not intended to mean only moral support.
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I suggest that imponderables, like propaganda, are even more weighty in peace.
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We are aware that overbooking will never be reduced to zero by the airlines, because that is how they manage imponderables.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
But we are dealing here withimponderablefactors, upon which honest and well-informed people may hold two, or more than two, opinions.
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There are all sorts of variables, not to say downright imponderables, in that paragraph.
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