| 单词 | unscalable |
| 例句 | Matthias had called the cliffs unscalable, and Inej had to admit that they would present a challenge even for the Wraith. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The cliffs are unscalable, and the northern road is the only way in or out. You’ll have to get through a guarded checkpoint before you even reach the ringwall.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Mr Pinker defends “more unique”, whereas many pundits still reserve “unique” to mean an unscalable “one of a kind”. Prevailing winds 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But it is also tiny in that particular way that poverty and extreme racial isolation build formidable, and virtually unscalable, walls. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z There are unscalable slabs of expositionistic dialogue clogging the forward movement of the story. Slate, New York Times to fantasy buffs: Grow up 2011-04-16T14:01:00Z But there’s also Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara, the latter of whom delivers such a masterclass of oblivious comedy that she has single-handedly created an unscalable mountain of reaction gifs. Schitt's Creek: the funniest sitcom you're (probably) not watching 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z For many of them, the memorization and the prospect of speaking in front of an audience are mountains that seem unscalable. Television Review: Ken Burns Follows Schoolboys Learning Gettysburg Address 2014-04-14T20:15:55Z Not the South of sweet tea and church ladies in dainty hats, but the other place with its invisible, unscalable walls of segregation, where, as Billie Holiday sang, “Southern trees bear strange fruit.” This nice Southern family has a body in the attic — literally 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Schreck does not believe America is as hopelessly broken as it may seem to those regularly consuming news of a great, unscalable partisan divide. Heidi Schreck returns to her searing play on the Constitution. It's never been timelier 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z An “unscalable” black fence has been erected around the court in anticipation of protests to come. How the future of Roe is testing Roberts’s clout on Supreme Court 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The court has a problem, no doubt, one that barriers of unscalable height around its building won’t solve. Opinion | Justice Alito’s Invisible Women 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Bicycle racks and an unscalable fence surround the U.S. U.S. judge rejects Trump request to block release of documents to House riot probe 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s fitting that piece of hardware is named after Bill Russell, whose 11 rings with the Boston Celtics remains one of the most unscalable feats in sports. Perspective | Giannis Antetokounmpo’s greatness comes with a demand: Now do it again 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The Capitol complex, typically a hive of activity, remained cut off from its surroundings Sunday night by troop deployments and an imposing scrim of seven-foot-tall, unscalable fencing. Police Reassess Security for Inauguration and Demonstrations After Capitol Attack 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The Lafayette Square that I passed at least twice a day traveling to and from high school is now barricaded by unscalable fencing. Opinion | How far Republican presidents have fallen 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z To Michael Jordan, golf is an unscalable Everest. Second Act: Golf Wins Over Stars In Other Games - Golf Digest 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Even knowing that there are plenty of other music discovery services, she felt compelled to propose something small and different, unscalable by nature. In the age of algorithms, would you hire a personal shopper to do your music discovery for you? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The requirements established to realize President Trump’s vision call for “a fence that is impenetrable, it’s unscalable,” said Roy Villareal, acting chief patrol agent of the San Diego border sector. Mexicans see models of Trump’s ‘impenetrable’ wall, and they’re not impressed. 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z I assumed its walls – solid concrete eight metres tall – were unscalable. 'I'm the only trip-hop artist in Palestine!': the musicians shaking up the occupied territories 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z It is an old joke: Two people, an economist and a normal person, fall into a deep pit with steep, unscalable sides. Opinion | An administration official with a Rubik’s Cube to solve 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z I arrived in Kabul in February 2014 to find drizzle, mud, brown decrepit buildings and an endless maze of unscalable walls topped with concertina wire. Facing my fear: I moved to Afghanistan and it changed my life | Alicia Shepard 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Even that once-forbiddingly high percentage no longer seems as unscalable as Mr. Trump’s promised wall. Donald Trump on track to win GOP nomination on first ballot, delegate analysis finds 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z When a champion eventually emerges from the bottom of the crab bucket, the edifice may not look so unscalable either. Is Donald Trump unstoppable or can more mainstream rivals reel him in? 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z To some degree this is an unscalable ideal; trying to grow a business while retaining that roundtable-style decision making process might be a balancing act too difficult to maintain. How to Stay Focused on Your Values While Growing a Business 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Radio psychologists told parents how to listen to young people suffering the emotional charge of an event so unscalable. Oregon Editorial Rdp 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z It felt exactly the same – at first PCs were unsecure, unscalable, unmanageable, then, what seemed like overnight, they were the infrastructure that business was run on. 5 Opportunities In Enterprise Infrastructure For 2013 2013-01-22T12:30:42Z He was instantly dismissive of Qualtrics, saying the code was unscalable junk. The Best-Kept Secret in Tech is in Utah 2012-05-16T22:00:00Z It was for a long time supposed to be unscalable from the north side. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z On the southward side the rock, sloping precipitously down to the water's edge, was absolutely unscalable. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z She told herself that, in character, he was unscalable heights above her. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z That gaunt gray summit was regarded as practically unscalable. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The island was saved by the fact of the inhabitants of one corner having fortified all their houses, and turned each into an inaccessible and unscalable fort. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z It was absolutely unscalable, and from the crest of it ranks of clinging pines rolled backwards up a slope that was almost as steep. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z “Doing unscalable things to delight users is the most important thing to us,” Mandal says. Sosh, From Second-Generation Entrepreneur, Helps People Find Unique Things To Do 2011-12-13T20:18:51Z Its face was unscalable; but Fangati had discovered a means of reaching its top from the rear. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z I asked, looking at the wall's apparently unscalable height. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z Aware of the impending danger, Jeremy had built his ricks that year within the defences of his courtyard, the walls of which he had rendered unscalable by various devices. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z On the right was the unscalable wall of rock; on the left was the awful drop to the roaring river! Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z The summit was now only a few hundred feet above, but the arête or ridge leading to it was broken by vertical cliffs and quite unscalable. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z After realizing that the talent business was “unscalable,” he decided to move the firm into other, more profitable businesses and into fast-growing countries. DealBook: Philanthropy Is Given Focus by Brain Cancer 2011-05-24T01:04:22Z Their city is ringed round with terrible mountains, abounding in gold and precious stones, unscalable by an enemy. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z The rest of the coastline is one continuous palisade of unscalable cliffs.” Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z It was very steep on that side, almost unscalable. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z There was a gnawing dread in his mind that they might be lodged in a fissure of an unscalable cliff. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z It was not the Tibet of his imagination, the Tibet of drear, waterless stretches shut in by bastioned mountains, unscalable, snow-helmeted guards. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z On either hand escape was impossible; behind him roared the sea, and in front towered the steep unscalable face of the cliff. The School by the Sea The whole attack was directed on the south-east front, an unscalable wall of solid masonry, with bastions at each corner four feet thick and ten feet high. The Unveiling of Lhasa But now the young couple found themselves in as trying a predicament as the Israelites with the sea in front, Pharaoh's army behind, and unscalable rocks on either side. Seeds of Pine The machine sidled precariously along a narrow ledge girdling an unscalable wall of rock, as Qanya sought a spot to resume the ascent. World of the Drone In the two hundred miles from the Greenbrier to the Kentucky River, the ridges are all but unscalable, and the streams sprangle in every direction like branches of mountain laurel. Our Southern Highlanders The great wall itself seemed to be one vast, unscalable precipice, capped by a series of shining spires. The Silent Barrier It seemed, suddenly, that life, ever a pleasant vista to him, had built a wall before his eyes, unscalable, opaque. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch But, wherever her eye ranged along the ledges above, she beheld them dizzy-steep and unscalable. Cudjo's Cave The stream ran at the bottom of a narrow and winding passage, whose wall-like sides of rock were sometimes for miles together unscalable by man. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Another day dragged by and Wunpost began to fidget and to watch the unscalable peaks, but no Indian’s head 196appeared to draw a slug from his rifle and again the night passed uneventfully. Wunpost Faced by an apparently unscalable rock wall, or lost in a wilderness of séracs, he would never guess the one way that led to success. The Silent Barrier Presently, when the police did come and, several hours later, in the person of Mr. Harvey, came again, they came upon the barriers, invisible and unscalable, which ignorance, properly paid, can erect. The Paliser case Mountain trails twist and turn, tack and loop around unscalable cliffs. A Mountain Boyhood The minute they were out of sight of the creek bottoms, Scott, choosing an apparently unscalable ascent, urged his horse up one of the canyon walls and the three were soon climbing in order. The Mountain Divide A narrow strip of sandy beach led to the cliffs, two hundred feet high, that were believed to be almost unscalable. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources That night they slept profoundly on a platform which they wove of branches in one of the tallest and most unscalable trees. In the Morning of Time At any rate, he was afraid to sleep in this room, where there is a fire escape at the window, and took mine, where an unscalable wall prevents access. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Constans looked longingly at the wall, but without some special appliance, such as a notched pole or grappling-hooks, it was unscalable. The Doomsman The lower end of the ravine was in Turkish hands, elsewhere there were unscalable cliffs, and the only means of getting back was by crossing a ridge close under the enemy rifles. The Tale of a Trooper It was very dark and the forest surrounding the calm expanse of water looked like an impenetrable wall, an unscalable rampart. Black Oxen I found a city wall, a huge battlement, ancient and weathered, like an unscalable cliff, and going through its gate was entering the shadows of a cave. Old Junk Above and beyond him towered the pitiless unscalable rocks. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 On the right ran the wall of the stockade, impenetrable and unscalable, and it was a long two miles to the north gate. The Doomsman The unscalable cliffs jut to heaven, and on the amethystine peaks sit angels weeping into the abyss where creatures run to and fro without escape! Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet But, look where he would, it everywhere seemed the same: vertical unscalable precipices of appalling height, and nowhere anything suggesting the existence of a road by means of which the valley might be reached. In Search of El Dorado He looked back at the Gerns and saw they were within a hundred feet of the—for them—unscalable wall of the stockade. Space Prison A white man could have found his way only by blind chance through the maze of twisted clefts that seamed the unscalable cliffs and crags. Bloom of Cactus For three weeks' time and more, I saw no entrance into the island, as I call it, nor anything but the same unscalable rock. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) The walls were unscalable throughout the entire length of the defile, which abruptly ended in a rough and torn rock face some two hundred feet in height. The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection About three miles below our last camp we landed on the left on a very pretty piece of bottom land, inaccessible except by river, being bounded behind by a high, vertical, unscalable wall. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 From its nature it was all but unscalable; from its position it commanded in limitless, sweeping view all possible paths of approach. Wolf Breed For the dramatist, sending his imagination beyond earth to heaven, reserves one peak unscalable in the ascent of man towards the summit of his aspirations. The Growth of English Drama The shore curved inwards in a deep bay just there, and the cliffs rose sheer and unscalable from it to a considerable height. The Swindler and Other Stories The bridge was four miles above, but unscalable walls made it impossible for him to reach that. I Married a Ranger Thus the country through which we were to pass was then a real wilderness, while the river itself was walled in for almost the entire way by more or less unscalable cliffs of great height. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 The valley lay before her, almost a level plain, except for the stream winding through its centre, and all about, unbroken and precipitous, arose the rampart of rocks, which seemed unscalable. The Strange Case of Cavendish The open sea was like a blank and unscalable wall imprisoning the eternal question of conduct. Romance The day after to-morrow! it seemed as if it must be the end of everything; as if he would be brought up sharply against an unscalable brick wall when his wedding-day came. The Second Honeymoon A clear race in the open he did not mind; but he had no stomach for a game of hide-and-seek around an unscalable wall with an active enemy. The Half-Hearted To his great satisfaction he found that the mesa was unscalable except at the point that Rhoda had found as she staggered up from the desert. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert On looking up, the soul was bowed down by the feeling of that prodigious height of unscalable, and often overhanging, cliff. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader At its upper end, it was blocked by a wall of unscalable heights. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Above him sprang the height of crag, seemingly unscalable. Foes In a moment the heavy door had swung to with a crash, and Grein found himself in a narrow, paved court, with high, unscalable walls on every side. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Its sides were in parts steep, and unscalable in face of determined resistance. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Are these mountain peaks of the Unknowable, the Impassable, which encompass the skyline of our humanity, these heights so mysterious and so unscalable, not rather bulwarks between man's pride and the abyss? Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man To the women who envied her, to the gossips and backbiters, he opposed a nescience inexpugnable, unscalable as a wall of polished stone: but the mischief was, he equally ignored her sensitiveness. Lady Good-for-Nothing It was as if I stood between them in a cleft of unscalable rocks. The Inheritors It was a narrow cut in the hill, with apparently unscalable sides and open only toward the lake. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box There were two concentric enclosing walls, the inner one was unscalable, and the outer one about five feet six inches high. The Lion's Share The doctor, though he maintained his professional calm, was smitten with alarm,—as a man is who, walking through darkness and danger to the rescue of a friend, finds himself stopped by an unscalable wall. Master of His Fate The idea of that lonely island, lying at the bottom of an unscalable canyon in the midst of a burning, desolate desert, appealed powerfully to their imaginations. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Now, though they had come to a land of apparently unscalable mountains and impassable rock-barriers, they had grass for the stock, and water,—delicious, fresh, pure, refreshing water for themselves. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter In the suburb, where "sets" are divided one from another by unscalable barriers, she could not have aspired to him. The Price of Love There's no getting out of this, I fear,"—he looked at the crescent of unscalable cliff—"but I don't believe in throwing up the sponge. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion Never had the canyon struck me so terribly with its illimitable space, its dread depth, its unscalable cliffs, and particularly with the desolate, forbidding quality of its silence. Tales of lonely trails To the boy staggering under the burden of a brimful carpet bag, it seemed fairly unscalable; wherefore he stopped at its base and looked up in dismay to its far-off, red-hot summit. Composition-Rhetoric High, steep banks of slippery mud—quite unscalable—crested with walls, were slipping past on either hand, with an occasional palisade, the piles just emerging from the water. The Torrent Entre Naranjos Then swiftly Stanton was lifted—levitated—up the unscalable wall and to its top. The Moon Pool With the journey all but completed to be thus wrecked upon the wrong side of that precipitous and unscalable wall of rock and ice! Warlord of Mars The rim-rock came out to a point above me, seeming unscalable, all grown over with brush and lichen, and stunted spruce. Tales of lonely trails Like ants upon a wall, they scaled that seemingly unscalable barrier, clinging, Heaven knows how, to its ragged perpendicular face. Pellucidar It had apparently unscalable slopes of weathered rock leading up to beetling walls. Desert Gold An unscalable cliff; at the top, in pleasant lands, lived the comfortable classes; at the bottom lived the masses—and while many came whirling down from the top, how few found their way up! Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Where it was open to any possible attack from below they strengthened the natural defenses so that it became unscalably secure, as we found it. Herland To the front unscalable walls, and behind him, at a moderate computation, three swords to his one. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship The schloss is situated on a lofty, unscalable rock that stands in the centre of a valley, as if it were a fortress itself. The Strong Arm Evidently he went as far as possible, and there he clung, an unscalable wall above, the abyss beneath. Desert Gold I suppose he was faced with the same unscalable stone wall of convention. The Mountebank It was a long road accompanied on one side and for about two miles by a tall, smooth wall, unscalable, guarding the privacy of a local magnate's park. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing Here was a dead and unscalable wall to right and left and in front, and all in deep shadow. Tropic Days And then that terrible mute dining-room, with the high, unscalable mantelpieces that no midget could ever reach! Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days Yaqui led swiftly along the lake to the upper end, where the stream roared down over unscalable walls. Desert Gold Instead of rearing an unscalable barrier of gloomy mountains, Nature here showed a level front of sullen hostility. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Mountains viewed from a distance seem to be unscalable. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration How he had envied them the freedom of the heights—the loneliness of the unscalable crags—the companionship of the clouds! The Desert of Wheat To the east of him he knew that there were three miles of almost impassable shore, of unbroken, unscalable cliff. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Two hundred feet high, its thick and unscalable walls showed no opening for at least half that distance, and then only a staggered spiralling of high narrow windows for archers. Highland Ballad Captain Davis moved the ship carefully against the lee wall of the "island," with a view of replenishing our water supply, but it was unscalable, and we were forced to withdraw. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Its two feet of straight depth was unscalable, and when finally discovered the toads were tired of their imprisonment. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The unscalable wall was again in front of him, and his foe at his heels, closer than before, and raging for his blood. Catharine Furze There were unscalable cliffs and crags at the western end of the island, and it is possible that they had their nests among them. West Wind Drift Once in such a canyon, they could only follow it, no matter where it led, for the cold peaks and higher ranges on either side were unscalable and unendurable. Smoke Bellew The ship loomed huge and black and terrifying as the launch at length drew in beneath it; its sides towered like massive, unscalable ramparts. The Iron Trail It was just the right temperature, with dense jungle banks on either side like great green unscalable walls, the water clear and a bit over waist deep in the middle of the stream. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers The grey weather had brought on the dark prematurely, and in the half-light it seemed that this ravine was blocked by an unscalable nose of rock. Huntingtower All right—let's go down and see what it did to your unclimbable slide and unscalable walls, Ventnor. The Metal Monster Sheer for several hundred feet, the shore is here unscalable. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan She felt shut in from the world, lost in an unscalable rut of the earth. The Call of the Canyon The stockade rose high above her head and she clung to it with widely open arms, pressing her whole body against the rugged surface of that enormous and unscalable palisade. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows Space and Time and Mode of Being, as with walls of adamant unscalable, impenetrable, shut me in from that gulf! Lilith, a romance The valley was miles long, several wide, and inclosed by unscalable walls. Riders of the Purple Sage There were the measureless distances to narrow the eye and teach restraint; the untrodden trails, the shifting sands, the thorny brakes, the broken lava to pierce the flesh; the heights and depths, unscalable and unplumbed. Heritage of the Desert They are a boundary, a dividing line, a wall impregnable and unscalable. The Night-Born |
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