| 单词 | unclimbable |
| 例句 | It must have reinforced his certainty that it was unclimbable, because he accepted Calixte’s terms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Maybe it was something about the design of the gardens, or the fact that the wrought-iron fence surrounding the lawns was nearly ten feet tall and unclimbable to my well-trained thief’s eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The how. I want to know the how. I look at the cliff and it looms there, unclimbable.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She and other Border Patrol officials say the barrier remains an essential border security tool but not an unclimbable one. The border wall Trump called unclimbable is taking a grim toll 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Filed in 2018, the lawsuit likens Nike to an old boys’ club and says “for many women at Nike, the company hierarchy is an unclimbable pyramid.” Nike was born on the track. Scandal and the pandemic may change its running business. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The company hierarchy is described in the complaint as “an unclimbable pyramid — the more senior the job title, the smaller the percentage of women.” Ex-employees sue Nike, alleging gender discrimination 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z At 13, he and two friends reached the top of Mount Despair, a rugged 7,292-foot peak in the North Cascades that mountaineers had considered unclimbable. Fred Beckey, Conqueror and Chronicler of North American Peaks, Dies at 94 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z “There come just too many soul-crushing moments when all you’ve written seems gibberish, and all possible paths forward look to end against a unclimbable wall, or over the edge of a cliff,” he writes. Toil, toil, great writer, for anonymity awaits 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z So Blood Meridian's rep as an unclimbable glass mountain of a film is mostly a matter of perception and aspiration. Blood Meridian is deemed ‘unfilmable’, but does that really mean anything? 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z On one side of the boulder was a steep headwall, completely rotten, utterly unclimbable. Team Building Thru Near-Death Experiences: Business, Innovation And The Secret Sauce For Social Bonding 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z On either side of it are two very steep, but not very high, passes into Nepal; both of them are, however, probably unclimbable. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z It looks so totally different from the apparently sheer and perfectly unclimbable cliff one sees from the Riffelberg, that it is hard to believe the two slopes are one and the same thing. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Falcon Crag, a couple of miles from Keswick, beside the road to Borrowdale, is not more than 150 or 200 ft. high, but at many points so vertical as to be quite unclimbable. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z In the background towered a range of mountains whose rugged sides gave the appearance of being unclimbable, while on either hand of the bay rose lofty cliffs. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z It was equally impossible to ascend to the next terrace, for the whole of the last quarter of a mile the cliff assumed an almost perpendicular aspect and was absolutely unclimbable. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z From this side the mountain appeared quite unclimbable, as the cliffs were all topped with hanging glaciers, from which great masses of ice came thundering down into the valley below all the day long. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z There are two conspicuous gullies, divided by a stretch of rock which looks almost unclimbable. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z But the wall was still absolutely unclimbable, although it was possible to see over it from the upper windows of the house or from the evergreens which surrounded it. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z I think we can spare enough of the galvanised iron sheeting to make an unclimbable fence. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Kvisberg is situated, with peculiar disregard for appropriateness of position, on the side of an almost unclimbable hill, about a quarter of a mile from the place where the road departs into the Hereafter. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z There was a precipitous bank of rocks and screes to our right, quite unclimbable, which seemed only to want the will—they certainly had the way—to topple us into the abyss. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z This may be supplemented by a steel unclimbable fence, and by entanglements or thorn plantations on the covered way and the lower slopes of the parapet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z She knew that the wash led nowhere, that it was a blind alley, a cul-de-sac ending in a rock-strewn, unclimbable slope that was the base of Block Mountain. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z If the youngsters and amateurs wanted to amuse themselves plotting hypothetical attacks on unclimbable sierras, that was all very well, but it was, if nothing worse, a great waste of time. The Planet Savers The lake itself is to the extreme right, with unclimbable snow-capped rocky mountains forming the opposite coast. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z It came into his head with the effect of a discovery that always among the unclimbable barriers of this supreme institution there had been,—caves. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Three Spires lay on the mud, heeled over to port, and everywhere else her sides were high, smooth, and unclimbable. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Make the groove only a little deeper, a little more unclimbable, make the temperament a little less sanguine, and suicide stares you in the face. The Passionate Friends “You were right as to its being unclimbable; but I found out even more than I expected.” Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Imagine shapeless masses of colored sandstone, unclimbable, barring the way; acres of polished mottled rock tilted at angles which defy crossing; unexpected canyons whose deep, broken, red and yellow precipices force long detours. The Book of the National Parks In front, the horrible eddy lapped upon the pebbles at each revolving swirl, and behind us rose a smooth wall of rock absolutely unclimbable, even if it had not overhung. Lorimer of the Northwest If, now, it were possible to raise the schooner’s bulwarks, or to render them unclimbable in some way! Turned Adrift I walked round and round the stone wall of their fortification, but it seemed unclimbable and impenetrable. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson The breastwork was about five feet high, and was absolutely unclimbable. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS The walls were smooth and unclimbable, and there was no break in them except at the point where the tunnel ran in. Jack Haydon's Quest Opinions differ but I believe myself the cliffs are not unclimbable. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I At other points, although the descent was less steep, it was, as far as he could see from above, altogether unclimbable; but this he thought he would be able to judge better, from below. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib La Fauconnaire is, I believe, unclimbable except at one place, at least for those who are not experienced cragsmen or Alpine experts. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles The rifle ranges were surrounded by a belt of trees, outside of which was an unclimbable fence guarded by two sentries, one on either side. My Adventures as a Spy She could hear the frantic rush of everything which true New Yorkers love, and she could feel its sky-scrapers closing in around her like an unclimbable wall. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl It is a country of impenetrable forests, fordless rivers, and unclimbable mountains. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Two miles, and he reached the unclimbable head of the coulee—and no pinto. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories The hillsides above them were steep and almost unclimbable, and no man could have driven a canoe upstream amidst the grinding ice-cake which cumbered the river, that was frozen still in its slower reaches. Alton of Somasco He will spring frantically up the face of an unclimbable precipice, as the young salmon leaps up a cataract, and die in the faith that he can go up it. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio Where I sat I could take in the gateway and its basalt portals, rough and broken, rising to the top of the wall forty feet above, shattered, ruined portals—unclimbable. The Moon Pool It looked an ugly place, but there I must go, for the rock-wall I was on was getting unclimbable. Prester John He looked back at the high and unclimbable wall behind—unclimbable because of its smooth plastering, but withal pierced with many little doors and at the approaching line of seekers. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories In fact, the eastern side of the Grand Teton appears to be absolutely unclimbable. The Moon Metal He was over the last of those barriers which are so easy from the outside and unclimbable from within. Barlasch of the Guard Its apse completes the unclimbable steepness of the hill and its buttresses follow the lines of the fall of it. First and Last Some forty yards from where Juanna had been sitting, a little promontory of rock jutted out over the unclimbable gulf below them and towards this spot Nam directed his steps. The People of the Mist First he followed this out to the log barrier, then back to the rock ledge that was supposed to be unclimbable. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Here the mountains receded, so that above us rose a mighty, dazzling slope of snow and below us lay that same pitiless, unclimbable gulf. Ayesha, the Return of She That is, a tall, unclimbable palisade of timber surrounded the entire town, which fence was strengthened by prickly pears and cacti planted on its either side. Allan and the Holy Flower While here, I rode round northward to inspect that side of this singular and utterly unclimbable mountain. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, At first he wondered whither they could be going, for they walked straight to the foot of what seemed to be an unclimbable wall of rock more than a hundred feet high. Swallow: a tale of the great trek Between these stretch unclimbable escarpments, stone walls, and other breastworks, and in front of all a double row of abatis, formed of the limbs of trees. The Dynasts Their land, which was very large and densely inhabited, was ringed round with unclimbable mountains, except to the north, where stood the great Fire-peak. Ayesha, the Return of She But as the two scrambled along the foot, they passed deep-cut gullies and fissures, most of them unclimbable, but offering something more hopeful than the face. Huntingtower All right—let's go down and see what it did to your unclimbable slide and unscalable walls, Ventnor. The Metal Monster Here we perceived a track that ran to the mouth of a narrow cave or tunnel in the lava rock of the precipice, which looked quite unclimbable. The Ivory Child Beyond a little stickiness at the corners of my mouth, it seemed to me that I was managing my words admirably; the while that I myself cowered at the bottom of unclimbable pits. Actions and Reactions The platforms were backed by a double line of lofty and unclimbable cliffs, whose tops were invisible. A Voyage to Arcturus It was of no great height, and yet unclimbable, for, after a man had gone up a little way, the sides of it were sheer, offering no foothold except to the rock-rabbits and the lizards. 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