Word of the Day:impregnable「堅不可摧的」

2020-12-23 E語Tong

Word of the Day：September 8, 2020

impregnable

堅不可摧的；牢不可破的；不可戰勝的；難以改變的

adjective | im-PREG-nuh-bul [m'preɡnb()l]

Definition

1 ： incapable of being taken by assault ： unconquerable

不可被攻擊的，不可被徵服的。

2 ： unassailable; also ： impenetrable

無懈可擊；也表示：堅不可摧

Examples

"The castle was built on the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was quite impregnable…." — Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

城堡建在一塊大石頭的拐角處，因此在三個側面上都是堅不可摧的……

"In his first months at Kryptos Logic, Hutchins got inside one massive botnet after another…. Even when his new colleagues at Kryptos believed that a botnet was impregnable, Hutchins would surprise them by coming up with a fresh sample of the bot's code…." — Andrew Greenberg, Wired, 12 May 2020

在他進入Kryptos Logic公司的頭幾個月裡，Hutchins又進入了一個龐大的殭屍網絡…當他在Kryptos的新同事們相信殭屍網絡已是牢不可破的時，Hutchins還是會拿出殭屍網絡新的代碼樣本，讓他們大吃一驚……

Did You Know?

Impregnableis one of the many English words that bear a French ancestry, thanks to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. It derives from the Middle French verb prendre, which means "to take or capture." Combining prendre with various prefixes has given our language many other words, too, including surprise, reprise, and enterprise. Remarkably, impregnable has a different origin from the similar-looking word pregnant; that word comes from a different Latin word, praegnas, meaning "carrying a fetus."

多虧了1066年諾曼對英格蘭的徵服，Impregnable「堅不可摧」是擁有法國血統的眾多英語單詞之一。它源於中古法語動詞prendre，意為「to take or capture「奪取或捕獲」」。將prendre與多種前綴組合使用也給我們的語言提供了許多其他詞，包括surprise「驚喜」，reprise「重現」和enterprise「勤奮」。值得注意的是 impregnable 與看似相近的 pregnant 詞源是不同。這個詞來自另一個拉丁詞praegnas，意思是「carrying a fetus「攜帶胎兒」」。

Name That Synonym

What synonym of impregnable begins with im- and can also describe a person not easily disturbed or affected by something?

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