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

• Should we now be unforgiving of his mistrust?
  我们怎能不原谅他的缺乏信心呢？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Either we accepted the unforgiving imperatives of the globalised economy or we would be condemned to fatal isolation.
  我们要么接受全球化经济的无情要求，要么注定陷入致命的孤立。
• Ground squirrels are well suited to survival in the sometimes unforgiving climate of these mountains.
  对于山脉中不时的极端气候，地鼠有着非常好的适应能力。
• He is unforgiving to his enemies.
  他对他的敌人从不宽容。
• Home can be very unforgiving.
  家庭是那样的不可原谅。
• With no means to preserve food for the journey, an unforgiving ecosystem and the risks presented by the hunt itself, some men never made it back.
  旅途中没有任何办法可保留食物，严酷的生态环境和狩猎本身所有的危险，让一些男子踏上不归路。