| 词组 | impenetrable |
| 释义 | impenetrable Impenetrable is now usually used with to when a complementary prepositional phrase is needed: • Five volleys plunged the files in banked smoke impenetrable to the eye —Rudyard Kipling, Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, 1888 • This gentleman was impenetrable to ideas —Padraic Colum, Introduction to James Joyce's Dubliners, 1926 • ... why should black novels, paintings, or symphonies be impenetrable to whites? —Robert F. Moss, Saturday Rev., 15 Nov. 1975 At one time, impenetrable also occurred with by, but this use is extremely infrequent in contemporary prose: • Aristocracies are, as such, naturally impenetrable by ideas —Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, 1865 (OED) |
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