inaccessible

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in·ac·ces·si·ble /ˌɪnəkˈsesəbəl◂/ AWL adjectiveadj

1 REACHdifficult or impossible to reach 难到达的；不可及的 OPP accessible

In winter, the villages are inaccessible by road.

冬天时，进入这些村子的路很难走。

inaccessible to

A long flight of stairs made the center inaccessible to disabled visitors.

一段长长的楼梯使残疾的参观者难以到达中心。

2 UNDERSTANDdifficult or impossible to understand or afford 难懂的；得不到的 OPP accessible

Stockhausen’s music is thought to be difficult and inaccessible.

施托克豪森的音乐被认为费解难懂。

—inaccessibly adverbadv

—inaccessibility /ˌɪnəksesəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

inaccessible• She could describe things like the difference between horses now and then, stuff that is virtually inaccessible.• Homeworkers are often invisible and inaccessible.• In the north, only a small part of Sutherland remained to be surveyed but the area was relatively inaccessible.• Bouvet Island, desolate, inaccessible and almost entirely icebound.• Some are very inaccessible and he has to wade through thick mud to get at them.• These mountain villages are completely inaccessible in winter.• They also enable you to tap into otherwise pretty inaccessible international markets.• The country consists mainly of dense jungles and inaccessible mountain ranges.• From whatever inaccessible pit of bitterness the words reached out to touch an empty place in her own life.• In less fertile and inaccessible regions, introducing free market forces and removing state subsidies brought poverty instead of wealth.• This textbook would be inaccessible to my students.• The bathroom is situated at the top of a flight of stairs, making it inaccessible to the disabled.

in·ac·ces·si·ble adjectiveadj

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