| 释义 |
impervious When impervious is used with a preposition, the choice is almost always to: • ... so hard a bark, as to be almost impervious to a bullet —Herman Melville, Omoo, 1847 • But he had long since grown impervious to these alarms —Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale, 1908 • He looked at her, impervious to her tears —Jean Stafford, Children Are Bored on Sunday, 1953 • ... Berlin struck me, above all, as impervious to any political reactions whatever —Stephen Spender, N.Y. Times Mag., 30 Oct. 1977 |