Word of the Day : March 22, 2021
inimitable
无与伦比的
adjective in-IM-it-uh-bul
Definition
: not capable of being imitated : matchless
不能被模仿：无与伦比
Examples
"Both writers were inimitable even as they were widely imitated.… Barthelme's particular brilliance was so original, so sui generis, despite its tutelage at the feet of pages by Joyce, Beckett, and Stein, that even his own brothers Frederick and Steven, also fiction writers of intelligence and style, wrote more like Carver." — Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2009
尽管受到了广泛的模仿，两位作家还是不可替代的。巴塞尔姆的才华是如此独特，如此独一无二，尽管在 Joyce, Beckett, and Stein的笔下，甚至他自己的兄弟 Frederick和Steven，（同时）也更像富有智慧和风格的作家Carver。”
"There aren't that many beauty and fashion icons who can captivate fans for a span of decades, but Miss Piggy is surely one of them. To celebrate her inimitable look, she now has her very own makeup collection, a collaboration between Disney and Ciaté London." — Celia Shatzman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2020
没有多少美女和时尚偶像能让粉丝们着迷几十年，Miss Piggy也确实是他们中的一个。为celebrate「赞扬；庆祝」她独特的外表，她现在与迪士尼和Ciaté London合作，拥有了自己的化妆品系列。
Did You Know?
Something that is inimitable is, literally, not able to be imitated. In actual usage the word describes things so uniquely extraordinary as to not be copied or equaled, which is why you often hear it used to praise outstanding talents or performances. (The antonym imitable describes things that are common or ordinary and could easily be replicated or surpassed.) Inimitable derives via Middle English from Latin inimitabilis. Be careful not to confuse it with inimical or inimicable, two adjectives meaning "hostile" or "harmful"; those words derive from the same Latin root that gave English enemy—inimīcus.
Inimitable 字面意思是无法被模仿「not able to be imitated」。在实际的用法中，这个词描述的事物非常独特，以至于无法被复制或等同，这就是为什么你经常听到它用来赞扬杰出的人才或表演。反义词 imitable 描述了常见或普通的事物，很容易被复制或超越的。) Inimitable通过中古英语得来，源自于拉丁语inimitabilis。注意不要与inimable「敌对」或inimicable「有害」混淆，这些词的词根与英语enemy「敌人」的拉丁语词根“inimīcus”相同。
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