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 irreversible [`ɪrɪ'vɚsəbl.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不可逆的, 不可改变的, 不能倒置的, 不能翻转的, 不能倒转的, 不可撤销的

[计] 不可逆的




    irreversible
    [ adj ]
    incapable of being reversed
    <adj.all>
    irreversible momentum toward revolution


    Irreversible \Ir`re*vers"i*ble\, a.
    1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back;
    incapable of being made to run backward; as, an
    irreversible engine; an irreversible process; an
    irreversible reaction.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or
    annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.

    This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal,
    so neither is it final and irreversible. --Jortin.

    Syn: Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.

    1. Officials hope, however, that they will learn that going easy on the soil will eventually improve yields, raise income and improve land prices. However bad the situation may be, it is far from irreversible.
    2. One appeared to improve dramatically after removal of her silicone-gel implants, even though the disease is widely thought to be irreversible, Dr. Patten noted.
    3. His market reforms - kick-started with price liberalisation - are, as he had hoped, irreversible.
    4. Alzheimer's is a progressive, irreversible neurological disorder that mostly strikes people over 65 and has an estimated 2.5 million American victims.
    5. Rhetoric in Brussels about the irreversible common destiny of EC member states often minimises the deep-rooted diversity.
    6. These are expected to include a new 30 per cent minimum cash requirement. Mr Franco said the object of the review was 'to protect the national wealth of the Brazilian people' and insisted the programme was 'irreversible'.
    7. A big thrust by institutional investors into small stocks has altered the way those shares are performing in the current bull market, and the change could be irreversible.
    8. The government says the laying down of arms is basic to the agreement _ but the Contras say they will do so only when Nicaragua is on "the irreversible road to democracy." The two sides met Thursday at the Camino Real Hotel near the airport.
    9. Further study may lead to a way of battling the memory-decaying condition before its effects are irreversible, they said Thursday.
    10. Imre Pozgay, one of Hungary's four communist leaders, told Bush the changes in his country were "irreversible" and added the government would "accept the results of free elections" set for next year and step down if defeated.
    11. They also warn that weaving companies are vulnerable because they depend on a UK clothing market that is in 'irreversible contraction'. Spinning companies should be able to defend their position, the consultants say.
    12. In it, the defense secretary said "until we know that Gorbachev is for real and that the changes he wants to bring about are irreversible," it would be a mistake for the United States to cut its NATO forces.
    13. President Ramiz Alia, who a month ago denied any need for competing political parties, has now pledged that reform is irreversible.
    14. He told American bankers and financiers that 'the strategy of Russian reforms is irreversible,' Tass said. Mr Gaidar on Sunday effectively ruled out a big reshuffle before December.
    15. The possibility that we might inadvertently start an irreversible reaction must be kept in mind constantly.
    16. Fifty-six percent said they had told family members their wishes concerning the use of life-sustaining treatment if they entered a irreversible coma.
    17. "The march toward freedom and justice is irreversible," Mandela told the roaring crowd in the township that has become one of the bleakest symbols of apartheid.
    18. But it has not yet become irreversible.
    19. South African President F.W. de Klerk appealed to Europe on Saturday to completely rethink its policy toward his country, saying the process of change there is irreversible.
    20. Like many other countries, it has pledged to maintain the bans until there is clear evidence of irreversible change in the apartheid system of racial segregation.
    21. But he said the fact that the Sandinistas will celebrate their 10th anniversary in power in July means "there's no doubt the (revolutionary) process is irreversible." Ortega himself has changed markedly in the past decade.
    22. The Senate responded to the pleas of several legislators, including leading defense figures, who said they were worried that continuing cuts in the space-based defense initiative would cause irreversible damage to the program.
    23. Ms. Quinlan, also in an irreversible vegetative state, continued to be fed through a tube and lived an additional nine years.
    24. With our help, the march of freedom in Eastern Europe will become irreversible." The package was brought to the House floor with unusual speed, just 15 days after it was introduced.
    25. "I think that some things are irreversible, but I don't think that they would go forward with anything like the same momentum if Mr. Gorbachev were not there," she said.
    26. They'll just slow down to the mental pace of the average urban escapee you run into in Aspen, and the brain damage will probably not be irreversible the way it is for lifelong in-state consumers.
    27. In both versions of "Perestroika" Mr. Gorbachev categorically asserts that, like Soviet socialism itself, the process of reform is "irreversible."
    28. Mr Naldo Brunelli, new head of the trade union confederation, CGT, says: 'We think that the changes are irreversible.'
    29. But he said the damage from a February freeze and lack of spring rain has caused irreversible damage to a large part of the winter wheat crop in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, west Kansas and southern Nebraska.
    30. Changes undertaken since the bloodless Nov. 7 coup are irreversible and will lead to a society of "rights, liberties and pluralism," the president said.
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