| 词组 | inimical, inimicable |
| 释义 | inimical, inimicable When inimical or its less often encountered synonym, inimicable, is used with a preposition, the preposition is to: • Both heat and cold are inimical to man, and he exists precariously balanced between them —Upton Sinclair, Presidential Mission, 1947 • ... local control is only a form of control, and it may be inimical to liberty —George F. Will, National Rev., 30 June 1970 • Pleasure is by nature immoderate and indefinite and inimical to right proportion —Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun, 1977 • ... those deficits seem to me directly inimicable to the progress we want to see on inflation —Paul Volcker, quoted in Wall Street Jour., 10 Mar. 1982 |
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