unforgiving

英 [ˌʌnfəˈɡɪvɪŋ]

美 [ˌʌnfərˈɡɪvɪŋ]

adj.  不饶人的; 不宽容的; 不肯原谅的; 让人为难的; 难应付的; 棘手的

现在分词：unforgiving　

BNC.19747 / COCA.15571

牛津词典

adj.

• 不饶人的；不宽容的；不肯原谅的
  unwilling to forgive other people when they have done sth wrong
• 让人为难的；难应付的；棘手的
  unpleasant and causing difficulties for people

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不宽容的；不原谅人的
  If you describe someone asunforgiving, you mean that they are unwilling to forgive other people.
  1. He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight...
     他斤斤计较，很不大度。
  2. He finds human foibles endearing, but is unforgiving of pretension.
     他觉得人性的弱点很可爱，但不能容忍惺惺作态。
• ADJ-GRADED （形势或活动）无情的，难以应付的，不利的
  If you describe a situation or activity asunforgiving, you mean that it causes a lot of people to experience great difficulty or failure, even people who deserve to succeed.
  1. Business is a competitive activity. It is very fierce and very unforgiving.
     商场如战场，竞争激烈，不近人情。

英英释义

adj

• unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy
  1. a surly unforgiving old woman
• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  1. grim determination
  2. grim necessity
  3. Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
  4. relentless persecution
  5. the stern demands of parenthood
  Synonym:griminexorablerelentlesssternunappeasableunrelenting

双语例句

• But in these unforgiving deserts, a pilgrimage could take years to complete.
  然而，要穿越无情的沙漠，朝觐之旅。
• The ear is unforgiving, so it can be irritating not to hear the wind when you're watching scenes of a hurricane, for example.
  耳朵是无情的，因此，例如当你在观看飓风的场景的时候，听不到风声可能让人感到不快。
• The sea can be particularly unforgiving of divers'mistakes: Sometimes we don't get second chances.
  大海是绝对不会原谅潜水者的错误的：有时我们连几秒的机会都没有。
• Different societies deal differently with sinners, and the Dutch seem particularly unforgiving.
  不同的社会对待犯错之人的态度有所不同，而荷兰人似乎尤其不肯原谅这些人。
• He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight
  他斤斤计较，很不大度。
• The Jacobins were most unforgiving.
  雅各宾党人是最不可饶恕的。
• All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving!
  那些向世界隐瞒着的一切内疚，本可以获得世界的博大心胸的怜悯和原谅的，如今却要揭示给他这个毫无怜悯心的人，给他这个不肯原谅人的人！
• The Internet's unforgiving speed is forcing split second changes on a profession that dates back millennia.
  因特网不可原谅的增长速度使得一项职业瞬间回到了千年以前。
• He added Mattel would be "vigilant and unforgiving in enforcing quality and safety".
  他还表示，美泰将“保持警觉、毫不松懈地推进质量和安全”。
• He is unforgiving to his enemies.
  他对他的敌人从不宽容。