| 单词 | unnavigable |
| 例句 | In summer the road here would have been sketchy but pass-able; now it was made unnavigable by a foot and a half of mushy spring snow. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Gallery spaces, encroached upon for storage and offices over the years, were unnavigable. Milwaukee Art Museum Reinvigorates With Renovations 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z In order to do so he must first haul a huge steamboat over a high hill that separates two rivers, avoiding unnavigable rapids, and so take a shortcut to an unclaimed jungle of rubber-producing trees. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z Tucked into a hilltop, Pignola is pure Italian charm: crumbing stone buildings and narrow, unnavigable streets. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The space from here to the side wall, one half of the dining area, is unnavigable because of heaped boxes, shopping bags. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z And rural migrants took up bamboo poles and skeins of rope to join the so-called “stick-stick army” of porters, looking to haul bags of groceries or sacks of concrete mix along unnavigable inclines. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z The two men, however, are lost in a wooded area so vast and unnavigable that travelers who wish to exit commonly tie a string to a tree to help find their way back. It’s official: This is the worst movie ending of all time 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The country is famously unnavigable, a riddle wrapped in an enigma locked deep inside a matryoshka doll. Book review: ‘Midnight in Siberia,’ by David Greene I learned better how to navigate Tokyo’s notoriously unnavigable streets. 2010-01-30T05:09:00Z There were many reasons why roads were unnavigable that day. Trapped by Maui fire, their escape routes were blocked. Why? 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Water levels in the region’s major rivers have become so low as to be unnavigable, leaving many Indigenous river communities without any way to obtain certain foods, drinking water, or medicine, according to Reuters. Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil with smoke 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The state has for years permitted most people with completed felony sentences to restore their voting rights through an administrative process established in 2006 that is ostensibly automatic, but in practice almost unnavigable. Voting by Formerly Imprisoned in Tennessee, Already Hard, Gets Harder 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit described how unnavigable sidewalks complicate their lives and sometimes put them in harm’s way. Portland, Oregon, to clear sidewalk tents to settle suit with people with disabilities 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Yankee L.A. was impatient with a river that didn’t pull its weight, unnavigable for goods or for people. How the deluge of 1938 changed Los Angeles — and its river 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Known for their erratic, scrappy websites that foreground the messy underside of the Web — encapsulated by the unnavigable wwwwwwwww.jodi.org — Jodi burst onto the Net Art scene in the 1990s. Art for shut-ins: An introduction to the world of Net Art. 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Many access points to the neighborhood were rendered unnavigable Wednesday by downed trees, wires and other material. In the tornadoes’ aftermath, Tennesseans live up to ‘Volunteer State’ nickname 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “For individuals who are disabled, homeless, and indigent, the program is unnavigable at every step, setting up unwarranted and unlawful barriers to compliance with disability laws,” the lawsuit states. L.A.’s citation program is 'unnavigable' for homeless and disabled people, lawsuit argues 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Alexandria prospered because it was a port and the Potomac became unnavigable north of there. Reporter's Notebook: Why Democrats' push for DC statehood will likely keep stalling 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z And finally, I scoured the almost completely unintelligible and largely unnavigable LA Metro website trying to decipher the routes and timetables of dozens of bus lines and a handful of train lines. Living in L.A., one Airbnb at a time 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Hundreds of dams were installed on New England’s rivers during the industrial revolution, presenting unnavigable walls for the migratory fish. The Last Presidential Salmon 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z But he now describes the party as an unnavigable institution, beholden to its liberal fringe and inconsequential to improvement of the country. Budding independent Howard Schultz aims most of his ire at Democrats 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z There’s a good argument that filtering reality is an impossible task — that line-drawing inevitably reaches unnavigable territory, and that any solution either stifles too much speech or risks too much injury. Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Holocaust faux pas reveals a bigger problem 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The dirt road could become unnavigable when it rained. The fireworks king: How one Chinese businessman became the largest supplier of pyrotechnics in the United States 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Real Name policies are massively unsafe for marginalized people, and almost unnavigable for most trans people. Analysis | Goodbye, DaddyzPrincess29: OkCupid is ditching its usernames, and not everyone is happy 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Lek, who sells northeastern food, describes how some vendors use up more space than allocated, making roads all but unnavigable. Will Bangkok's street food ban hold? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z When Poole got to the confluence, the difference between the busy Ohio and the unnavigable Wabash became apparent. Hoosier outdoorsman navigates 500-plus miles of Wabash River 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Soil erosion resulting from forest clearing long ago silted the creek into a shallow, unnavigable channel. The battle to save Dueling Creek 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z It was deemed to be unnavigable, but in one of his first actions Captain Cook went out at night and mapped the river channels and shoals. Making Maps Under Fire During the Revolutionary War Yet the weather in “Bleak House” is unmistakably symbolic: the mud is that of a hopelessly sullied culture, the fog that of an opaque and unnavigable legal system. Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The result, in “Walden,” is an unnavigable thicket of contradiction and caprice. Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In a year when managers complained about unnavigable markets, with the leading central banks keeping interest rates low, hedge funds that employed a variety of strategies fared better. Top 25 Hedge Fund Managers Took Bad ’14 All the Way to the Bank 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Hotels are sold out, sidewalks become practically unnavigable, and the city closes a major street in the tech startup-packed South of Market district, jamming the Bay Bridge even more than usual. Marc Benioff's Philanthropic Mission: San Francisco 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Lake Worth sat quietly for years, mostly ignored, and silt made much of it unnavigable. Born from fire: Lake Worth celebrates 100th year 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Lake Worth sat quietly for years, mostly ignored, and silt made much of the lake unnavigable. Lake Worth celebrates 100 years 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z At Flushing Meadows-Corona Park children play in dry wading pools and lake paths are unnavigable without machetes. Gotham: Reducing Some City Parks to the Status of Beggars 2013-05-28T01:51:26Z "The Coast Guard has declared it unnavigable so even if you wanted to move something you'd need to get clearance from the Coast Guard right now," an Illinois River barge broker said. Damaged Illinois River lock may hinder barges for weeks 2013-04-25T22:47:05Z Army Corps doesn’t expect the river to become unnavigable at any point this summer. How the Mississippi River's Low Water Levels Are Impacting the Economy 2012-07-30T11:05:30Z The waterway, used for industry for over a century, used to be vertical-sided and choked with rubbish, littered with shopping trolleys and old cars that made it unnavigable and unpleasant. A tale of two cityscapes at London's revived Olympic Park 2012-07-18T17:23:47Z And it happened under the shadow of a great rock, in a cleft, green-grown and sheltered, where the road runs beside the noisy, stony, rapid, unnavigable river. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The closing ate up parking spots, merchants say, and made streets unnavigable. Traffic-Free Plaza Roils Little India in Queens 2012-03-18T23:32:43Z He discouraged Raleigh's attempts to penetrate into the country, telling him that he would find the river unnavigable for his ships, and the nations hostile. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z The channels of great rivers become unnavigable, their estuaries are choked up, and harbors which once sheltered large navies are shoaled by dangerous sandbars. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The rivers which fall directly into the Atlantic are generally unnavigable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Young expresses his firm conviction that this channel is so constantly choked up with unusually heavy ice as to be quite unnavigable; it is, in fact, a continuous ice-stream from the N.W. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The country is well watered, but with the exception of the Rufiji the rivers, save for a few miles from their mouths, are unnavigable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z But because of the cutting and burning of the forests, and the failure of the Government to complete the reservoirs, the Mississippi this year has been unnavigable above Saint Louis through the whole summer season. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The rivers, known only at their mouths, seem to be unnavigable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z So the grantee of an exclusive fishery with rod and line in an unnavigable river can prevent any person from polluting the river higher up and so damaging the fishery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The Tampa-to-Orlando route had obvious drawbacks: It would have linked two cities that are virtually unnavigable without cars, and that are so close that the new train would have been little faster than driving. How Flaws Undid Obama?s Hope for High-Speed Rail in Florida 2011-03-12T02:02:44Z It is lowest in November, and rocks, shallows, and the remains of old dams then render it almost unnavigable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Here the Upper Livingstone Falls are situated, and the river again becomes unnavigable. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Thus Air was void of Light, and Earth unstable, And Waters dark Abyss unnavigable. The Art of English Poetry (1708) 2011-01-29T03:00:20.010Z The confounding part is the idea, forever implied by these sales clerks, that a clothing store is so esoteric and unnavigable that you shouldn’t walk around one without an expert. The Haggler: Enough, Already! One Consumer?s Pet Peeves 2010-08-21T21:59:00Z Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable, And waters dark abyss unnavigable. Heathen Mythology The Hoang-Ho is for the greater part of the year unnavigable, owing to floods during the summer months, the disasters being so great it is sometimes called the "Chinese sorrow." My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 Thus, as is the case of the Orange river also, they are, with rare exceptions, unnavigable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" He was to encounter an ocean untried, and dreaded as unnavigable, and he knew the power of religion on minds which are not inclined to dispute its authority. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Their violence makes them difficult to control, and they are unnavigable. Area Handbook for Albania Like Back’s river, the only other large river of this part of Canada, it is unnavigable, being a succession of lakes and violent rapids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" The Snake River, a sluggish, unnavigable stream, coming from the back-lying hills and through the tundra, empties into the sea where the town tapers off at the north, and thereby forms a sand-spit. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) In that land of forgetfulness and shadows there is the unnavigable lake Avernus, Acheron, Styx, the groaning Cocytus, and Phlegethon, with its waves of fire. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition I shall have to give the password for unnavigable German steamers on February 1st, as effect of carrying out of my instructions here will be like declaration of war, and strict guard will be kept. My Three Years in America Rivers are almost entirely unnavigable, and only in the south are there valleys wide enough to link the coast with the interior. Area Handbook for Albania The village of Sigayan was moved to another site, where the only advantage was a near-by river of fresh water which was unnavigable. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. It was bounded on each side by a range of high mountains, and was so closely confined between them, as not only to be unnavigable, but to be impassable along its banks. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The weather had made the sea unnavigable; and the Alps, now covered to a great depth with ice and snow, could be crossed only on sledges. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Commercially, both the Orange and the Vaal are as useless as their smallest tributary, being entirely unnavigable at all times of the year. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government Mr. Winn insisted upon his remaining with him for two days during the progress of a violent storm which rendered the river unnavigable, and every effort was made to make the time pass agreeably. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier More often the unnavigable streams serve as guides to the traveller in the dense jungles, the tracks running up their banks, crossing and recrossing them at frequent intervals. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula The Lagoon itself, as is well known, consists of extremely shallow water, unnavigable for any vessel except along the course of artificial and intricate passages. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The grey, forbidding mountains, showing hardly a foothold for man or beast, tree or house, matched the grey, swirling river, here unnavigable even for rafts. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Like the Coppermine, the only other large river of this part of Canada, it is rendered unnavigable by a succession of rapids and rocks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" What wonder," said the Professor, as he scanned the unnavigable seas with his glass, "that man has thus far utterly failed in his attempts to overcome these insuperable obstacles. Doctor Jones' Picnic From this place, for sixty miles, a tumultuous and almost unnavigable stretch of water reached to the vicinity of Fort McMurray, the end of their journey. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland The frigid zones, between the polar circles and the poles, were considered uninhabitable and unnavigable, on account of the extreme cold. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) He noticed the line of breakers, and concluded, that, if there was any river, it must be unnavigable, from shoals and reefs. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California "Even if it be imagined that some narrow strait may exist through these mountains, it is evident that it must for ever be unnavigable," he says decidedly. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole At the same time there are numerous, but unnavigable rivers. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The Atlantic Island remained absorbed beneath that great sea, which from that cause continued to be unnavigable owing to the mud of the absorbed island in solution, a wonderful thing. History of the Incas Mountain slopes comprise about two-fifths of the area of the country, and practically all of the rivers are rapid and unnavigable. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Most of the tributaries of the Upper Columbia are similar in character to the main stream,—wild, unnavigable rivers, flowing through deep cañons, and full of torrents and rapids. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea unnavigable," asserted the men of the sixteenth century, when England set herself to take possession of her heritage in the North. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The sources are now only a few miles distant, but the stream is unnavigable, and they must be reached on foot. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Aside from the three rivers mentioned the water courses are, for the greater part, small and unnavigable and a short distance back from the coast appear as tiny rivulets at the bottom of deep cañons. The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Meanwhile this haphazard draining off of the water is seriously impairing the main streams, especially that of the Euphrates, which is now almost unnavigable in the low water season. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years But its many rocks, he thought, made it unnavigable, except for the canoes of the Indians, whose light craft of bark can surmount all kinds of difficulties. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea unnavigable," was the heroic reply. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole On the north it is bounded by the same vast unnavigable Ocean, from which by means of a sort of projecting arm of land a bay is cut off and forms the German Sea. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Towards the land side these were not so numerous; but it is the foulest and most unnavigable channel that ever was seen, in comparison with any other sea. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time They had to take to these same mountains, the river being unnavigable. Pioneers in Canada By May 9 he was at the Little Meadows, twenty miles from his starting-place; by the 18th at the Youghiogany River, which he explored and found unnavigable. George Washington, Volume I By the time a canoe could be built the river would be wholly unnavigable. The Sky Line of Spruce The state acquired the north bank of the Congo from its mouth to a point in the unnavigable reaches, and in the interior the major part of the Congo basin. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It was deep and clear, but absolutely unnavigable. The Mysterious Island The frozen regions near the poles were considered uninhabitable and unnavigable on account of the extreme cold. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Over that very spot, now unnavigable, Raleigh and his men sailed in to conquer Trinidad. At Last Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable, And water's dark abyss unnavigable. Mosaics of Grecian History These rivers descend from the mountains in great falls, and like the other Abyssinian streams are unnavigable in their upper courses. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The engineer had remarked its several affluents, but they were simply unnavigable streams. The Mysterious Island To facilitate commerce, he attempted to reopen the old canal dug by Seti I. and his son, which had become unnavigable. General History for Colleges and High Schools The channels of great rivers become unnavigable, their estuaries are choked up, and harbors which once sheltered large navies are shoaled by dangerous sand-bars. The Earth as Modified by Human Action The blue lake was about the only part true to nature; and even that should have had a foot-note to state that it was generally lashed into high, unnavigable waves, by a chronic nor'-wester. Station Amusements in New Zealand On either hand they confront the naked poles, and they recoil from unnavigable space to an intenser struggle among themselves. Revolution, and Other Essays The bay is like a crescent in shape, and receives the waters of the Yumuri and Matanzas rivers, two small unnavigable streams. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Or he will put the spittle in a frog and throw the animal into an inaccessible, unnavigable river, which will make the victim quake and shake with ague. The Golden Bough As neither slaves nor canoe ever appeared again, his Excellency concluded that Kebrabasa was unnavigable. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 The other three had stuck fast among the rocks, so that it was impossible to move them; the men returned, therefore, in despair, and declared the river unnavigable. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains From horizon to horizon the great road to the sands lay between the hills in a dull glitter of empty curves, resembling an unnavigable river of mud. Tales of Unrest When the one chair in the room was at its usual place before the table, the canal was unnavigable. Martin Eden |
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