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 incapable [in'keipәbl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 无能力的, 不能的

[机] 不能行的, 耐不住的




    incapable
    [ adj ]
    1. (followed by `of') lacking capacity or ability

      2. <adj.all>
      incapable of carrying a tune
      he is incapable of understanding the matter
      incapable of doing the work
    2. (followed by `of') not having the temperament or inclination for

      3. <adj.all>
      simply incapable of lying
    3. not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of')

      4. <adj.all>
      incapable of solution
    4. not meeting requirements

      5. <adj.all>
      unequal to the demands put upon him


    Incapable \In*ca"pa*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + capable: cf. F.
    incapable, L. incapabilis incomprehensible.]
    1. Lacking in ability or qualification for the purpose or end
    in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in
    physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not
    capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of
    liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of
    perseverance, of reform, etc.

    2. Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because
    morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to
    some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or
    falsehood.

    3. Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible;
    not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure;
    incapable of stain or injury.

    4. (Law) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a
    man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding
    the office of president of the United States; a person
    convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of
    holding an office of profit or honor under the government.

    5. (Mil.) As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a
    sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered
    incapable of serving his country.

    Note: Incapable is often used elliptically.

    Is not your father grown incapable of reasonable
    affairs? --Shak.

    Syn: Incompetent; unfit; unable; insufficient; inadequate;
    deficient; disqualified. See {Incompetent}.


    Incapable \In*ca"pa*ble\, n.
    One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an
    imbecile; a simpleton.

    1. Former Sen. Howard Baker Jr. says Congress may be institutionally incapable of setting its own salary. "It is the grand daddy conflict of interest of all time," he told the salary commission.
    2. But Babar, a taxi driver who came to Jayapura 12 years ago from Sulawesi, says Irianese are incapable of holding down steady jobs.
    3. A college of regulators was established in 1987, on the IML's initiative, so that regulators from eight countries would jointly take responsibility for BCCI. This college proved to be incapable of monitoring BCCI closely enough.
    4. The senators were no doubt sincere in asserting congressional power, but in the process they merely proved how incapable Congress is of planning or implementing any kind of coherent national security policy.
    5. After six weeks of testimony, the Dade County jury deliberated just a day, rejecting the defense's argument that Streetwas incapable of planning the murders because he was high on cocaine at the time of the shootings.
    6. Congress may not like the Pentagon's choices, but it's incapable of substituting any coherent priorities of its own.
    7. Amid its disarray, the SDPJ looks incapable of mounting public support to counter the government's nuclear power commitment. But short-term difficulties persist.
    8. Were Peru to default on payments, it would be "because we'd really be incapable of paying," he said.
    9. He's said to have been influenced by Rimbaud and Blake (Mr. Stone flashes a couple of book covers onscreen to make the point), but most of the time he seems quite incapable of reading anything at all.
    10. In the federal indictments, Exxon is charged with staffing the tanker with people who were physically or mentally incapable of performing their duties.
    11. The implication was clear: however important Bonn's links with the US, Washington was incapable of giving West Germany full protection against the Soviet Union.
    12. Dr. Williams Parker, director of the Baylor Institute of Rehabilitation, described Mrs. Railey, 40, as "seriously brain-injured" and incapable of communication.
    13. But the U.S. government proved incapable either of self-criticism or of policy innovation.
    14. Half are imported." Moreover, Melman argues, defense managers are incapable of making the leap without retraining.
    15. His faction, now widely called Red Sendero, seems incapable of large-scale, co-ordinated action, but remains dangerous.
    16. Elizabeth Freeland of Sacramento, Calif., testified that she was told by the government that she needed a representative to handle her disability benefits because she was incapable of managing the money herself.
    17. "The question is: Has Nintendo grown so big _ an 800-pound gorilla _ that the rest of the world is incapable of getting around it?"
    18. "We are now withdrawing that declaration," the statement said. "It has become obvious by its own actions, that the Aquino administration is incapable of ensuring the very survival of this nation over the next few years.
    19. The mark-yen exchange rate seemed incapable of breaking out of a tight range, despite yen-bearish comments out of Japan.
    20. I've also learned that people, even close friends, just are incapable of understanding something as foreign as this kind of captivity.
    21. "But what you don't know, you don't know," he says. "Someone once told me that a bumblebee, judged by aerodynamic principles, is incapable of flying.
    22. "Paul is completely incapable of cheating anybody," Mr. Korczak says.
    23. Meanwhile, a West German medical expert charged today that rescue work after the air show disaster was seriously flawed and that many burn victims were sent to hospitals incapable of handling their injuries.
    24. 'If we are incapable of responding rapidly to the crisis we will find ourselves still at the bottom while others are recovering.
    25. That problem, simply put, is that the mentally ill require treatment which they are incapable of seeking for themselves. All the funds and group homes in the world are of no avail so long as residents can wander as they please and refuse medication.
    26. But if savings are low, luck matters, and Franklin and Zora are nearly destroyed by events they're incapable of controlling.
    27. It may not seem like much compared with HAL, who was supposedly completed in 1992 to be "foolproof and incapable of error."
    28. Special consideration is given a person 55 or older who becomes mentally or physically incapable of self-care during the five-year period before the home sale.
    29. That demand had been voiced by Armenian activists, who said the courts in Azerbaijan were incapable of ruling fairly in cases where Azerbaijanis were accused of attacking Armenians.
    30. He dismissed impressionism as a retinal art incapable of describing ideas and passion.
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