irredeemable
irredeemable 英 [ˌɪrɪˈdi:məbl] 美 [ˌɪrɪˈdiməbəl]
adj. 不能赎回的；[金融] 不能兑现的；不可救药的
名词复数:irredeemables
- If something is beyond all hope, you can describe it as irredeemable — like your disastrously bad performance at the school talent show.
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- adj. 不能赎回的；[金融] 不能兑现的；不可救药的
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1. But while the bankers at Goldman Sachs (GS) and the traders at AIG (AIG) made decisions that helped tip us into a global recession, it does not necessarily follow that Wall Street is irredeemable.
虽然高盛（Goldman Sachs）的银行家们和美国国际集团（AIG）的交易员们做出的一些决定把我们扔进了全球性经济衰退，但这并不一定意味着华尔街已经不可救药。
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2. On death row, I encountered the enemy — those considered so irredeemable by our society that even our Supreme Court has made it legal to kill them.
在死囚牢里，我遭遇了这些我们的敌人，那些被社会认为是万劫不复，甚至我们的最高法院要运用法律手段将其永远铲除的敌人们。
- irredeemable (adj.) c. 1600, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + redeemable. Related: Irredeemably.
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