immobile

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1 NOT MOVINGnot moving at all 不动的，固定的 SYN motionless

She could see a figure sitting immobile, facing the sea.

她看到一个人影面朝大海坐着，一动不动。

2 MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONunable to move or walk normally 不能正常移动[行走]的

Kim’s illness had rendered her completely immobile.

金的病使她完全丧失了活动能力。

—immobility /ˌɪməˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountableU]

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immobile• The disease can leave victims completely immobile.• A strange anticipation held her completely immobile.• Masonry is extraordinarily satisfactory in its way but it is inherently heavy and immobile.• She pursed her lips and blew on the baby's squashed, immobile face.• A female produces few, large, immobile gametes called eggs.• We could do pullups on the steady, immobile high bar instead of on our clanking, swaying ceiling pipes.• Brigg was immobile, his eyes fixed on the horizon.• Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past.• She remained rigidly immobile, suddenly quite incapable of moving anyway.• I stood there immobile with terror.

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