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unbridgeable

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++un·bridge·a·ble /ʌnˈbrɪdʒəbəl/ adjective  unbridgeable differences between two people, groups, or ideas are so big that no one will ever agree about them or be satisfied with them 〔两个人、团体或观念之间的分歧〕无法弥合的,无法逾越的unbridgeable gulf/gap/chasm etc (between somebody/something and somebody/something) the unbridgeable gulf between the rich and the poor 富人和穷人之间无法逾越的鸿沟
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unbridgeableAnd the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide - and unbridgeable.For an impecunious woman of twenty-nine, the gulf was unbridgeable.The distance between them, he wrote, is not so much great as unbridgeable.The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference, rather than the similarity, between her situation and mine.Looking to the past, she seeks to illuminate the present, believing there to be no unbridgeable gap between the two.It was an almost unbridgeable gulf.He drew an unbridgeable line between this élite and rank-and-file workers.Fundamental to Frege's whole approach is the assumption that there exists an unbridgeable logical gulf between concepts and objects.
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unbridgeable
unbridgeable /ʌnˈbrɪdʒəbəl/ adjective
unbridgeable differences between two people, groups, or ideas are so big that no one will ever agree about them or be satisfied with them
    unbridgeable gulf/gap/chasm etc (between somebody/something and somebody/something)
    the unbridgeable gulf between the rich and the poor


un·bridge·ableBrE /ʌnˈbrɪdʒəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ʌnˈbrɪdʒəbl/ 🔊 adjectivean unbridgeable gap or difference between two people or groups or their opinions is one that cannot be closed or made less wide (分歧、意见等)无法弥合的;无法沟通的