redoubtable的意思|redoubtable的解释-里氏词典

redoubtable [rɪ'daʊtəbl.]

a. 可怕的, 厉害的, 可敬的

redoubtable

[ adj ]

inspiring fear

<adj.all>

the formidable prospect of major surgery

a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic

something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall

worthy of respect or honor

<adj.all>

born of a redoubtable family

Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\ (-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable,
formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written
also {redoutable}.]

The redoubtable Sir David Attenborough charmed us with his grand series "Life on Earth" and "The Living Planet."
Cole never seems to really date." Long banned from most hotels, hospitals and commercial airliners in Southeast Asia, the redoubtable durian is now barred from Singapore's new subway, the Mass Rapid Transport system.
Lovely, too, is The Courtier, a fond homage to Certainly Mary, a redoubtable family ayah.
Of course, in physical expertise and elegance of manner the Opera dancers are magnificent; their redoubtable skills, though, seem hardly to impinge upon La Bayadere. The Nikiya was Isabelle Guerin.
Beaumont inherited the title from his grandmother, the redoubtable Dame Sybil Hathaway who ruled Sark for 47 years and became world-renowned as the woman who kept the 20th century at bay.
It also has the backing of Lord Chapple. Frank Chapple was the redoubtable general secretary of the UK's electrical and electronics union.
Princeton University, where Peter graduated, is dotted with the Putnam Collection of sculpture, presented as a memorial to Peter's brother. The redoubtable Mildred Putnam gave a quantity of 20th-century art to Princeton, Cleveland Museum and elsewhere.

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