Incurable

(noun.) a person whose disease is incurable.

(adj.) unalterable in disposition or habits; 'an incurable optimist' .

(adj.) incapable of being cured; 'an incurable disease'; 'an incurable addiction to smoking' .

手打:奥斯伯特

• I inquired, fancying that I had discovered in the incurable grief of bereavement, a key to that same aged lady's desperate ill-humour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Disorders of the heart are incurable. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But the water decomposed, and the incurable defect was still there. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His father, Sir Felix Glyde, had suffered from his birth under a painful and incurable deformity, and had shunned all society from his earliest years. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Unfortunately, he did not reason in this way, but, feeling that he was miserable, hastily decided that such misery was incurable. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Well, perhaps,' said Sam, 'you bought houses, wich is delicate English for goin' mad; or took to buildin', wich is a medical term for bein' incurable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• All her virtues and all her defects tended to make the blow incurable. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was sinking under a painful and incurable disease, and wished to recover him before she died. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• For ten years past I have suffered from an incurable internal complaint. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Blind to the constitutional defects that were incurable, she had her eyes wide open to the acquired habits that were susceptible of remedy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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