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 we are still running behind this devastating, unforgiving epidemic.
  当然，我们还落后于这个毁灭性的无情流行病，没有赶上它。
• Date warriors have a fierce and unforgiving nature.
  伊达家的战士具有狂暴和无情的天性。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• Nothing he did could mitigate her wrath; she was unforgiving.
  他所作的一切都不能平息她的愤怒；她是不原谅人的。
• Home can be very unforgiving.
  家庭是那样的不可原谅。
• That is the most unforgiving speech, said Elizabeth, that I ever heard you utter.
  我生平只听到你讲一句气量小的话。
• He is unforgiving to his enemies.
  他对他的敌人从不宽容。
• It did me no harm but that was not the reason why an unforgiving person like me never really held any grudge against him for doing so.
  这事虽未对我造成伤害，然而我这个不忘宿怨的人，对他一向未尝怀恨在心，实在令有原因。