Rubicon
noun
uk/ˈruː.bɪ.kɒn//ˈruː.bɪ.kən/us/ˈruː.bɪ.kɑːn/cross the Rubicon
to do something that you cannotlaterchangeand willstronglyinfluencefutureevents:
破釜沉舟；下重大决心；采取断然行动Most EUstateshavecrossedthe Rubicon andadoptedtheeuro.大多数的欧盟国家已经下了决心采用欧元。
Not able to be changed
- be no hard and fast rulesidiom
- burnyourboats/bridgesidiom
- congenital
- continuity
- deep-seated
- incorrigible
- incurably
- inelastic
- inelasticity
- inflexible
- irreversible
- irreversibly
- irrevocable
- irrevocably
- leopard
- unalterable
- unchangeable
- uncompromising
- uncompromisingly
- unredeemable