unflappable
英语 编辑
词源 编辑
源自un- + flap (“使...沮丧”) + -able。
发音 编辑
形容词 编辑
unflappable (比较级 more unflappable，最高级 most unflappable)
- 临危不惧的，沉着冷静的 （自1954年）
- 近义词： collected、cool、even-keeled
- 反义词： 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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