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单词 inhospitable
释义
inhospitable
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.hɒsˈpɪt.ə.bəl/us
/ˌɪn.hɑːˈspɪt̬.ə.bəl/

inhospitableadjective(PERSON)

notwelcomingorgeneroustopeoplewhovisityou:
不好客的；不殷勤待客的
I'll have tocookthem amealor they'llthinkI'm inhospitable.我得给他们做顿饭，否则他们会认为我不好客。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not being friendly
  • abrasive
  • abrasively
  • abrasiveness
  • abruptly
  • abruptness
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • coolness
  • dourness
  • estrange
  • estranged
  • estrangement
  • forbidding
  • prickly
  • sourness
  • standoffish
  • standoffishly
  • standoffishness
  • sullen
  • surly
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inhospitableadjective(PLACE)

An inhospitableareais notsuitableforhumanstolivein:
（地区）难以居住的，条件恶劣的
They had totrekformilesthrough inhospitablecountryside.他们不得不在条件恶劣的乡野艰苦跋涉数英里。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Living or sleeping somewhere
  • abide
  • co-resident
  • co-residential
  • domiciled
  • dwell
  • live in
  • live in sinidiom
  • live out
  • lodge
  • occupancy
  • occupation
  • populate
  • repopulate
  • repopulation
  • reside
  • residence
  • residency
  • settle
  • slum
  • tenancy
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(Definition ofinhospitablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinhospitable

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The results indicate that the diversity of life is extensive, even in this seeminglyinhospitable' ' extreme ' ' environment.
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How do we keep your foreign language without being impolite orinhospitableto the public, our host in the theatre?
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He is particularly good on conditions within the workhouse, whether in regard to the poor quality of workhouse food or to the bleak andinhospitablenature of the physical environment.
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His first objection is to my argument that the urban origins and agendas of these movements, and theinhospitablerural environment, explain much of the movements' violence against the peasantry.
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The depositional environment is too close to the mountainous hinterland, which is tooinhospitablefor mammals and reptiles due to lack of food and standing water bodies.
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Is the matrix reallyinhospitable?
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The railway was 250 miles long and was built through some of the mostinhospitableand disease-ridden terrain in the world.
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In this way, hope and encouragement was given to those living in these wild andinhospitableareas.
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How are they able to support that population upon those barren, windswept, cold andinhospitableislands?
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Howeverinhospitableand unattractive it may be physically, it is extraordinary how many colleagues from all parties have expressed a desire to go there.
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I do not think anybody in his senses would think of having many small holdings in that very bleak andinhospitableclimate.
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The area can sometimes look bleak andinhospitable.
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I join others in paying a very real tribute to her for the courageous way in which she travels into the mostinhospitablelands.
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If they can wring some small livelihood from thatinhospitablesoil, surely they should be given a chance of doing so.
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Our forces must be deployable at short notice and in difficult andinhospitableterrain.
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