unconscionable
unconscionable 英 [ʌnˈkɒnʃənəbl] 美 [ʌnˈkɑnʃənəbl]
adj. 不合理的；昧着良心的；肆无忌惮的；过度的
- Something that is almost unimaginably unacceptable is unconscionable. Think of it as being something that no reasonable person would even think of doing or saying — something unbelievable, outrageous, and often horrible.
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- adj. 不合理的；昧着良心的；肆无忌惮的；过度的
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1. Just a month earlier I had apologized for the unconscionable and racist syphilis experiments performed on hundreds of black men decades earlier by the federal government in Tuskegee, Alabama.
就在一个月前，我为联邦政府几十年前在亚拉巴马州的塔斯基吉对几百名黑人做的不合理的并带有种族歧视的梅毒实验表示道歉。
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2. The Fed has such broad power to intervene in the economy and to engage in agreements with foreign governments and central banks that it is unconscionable that such actions are exempt from oversight.
美联储对经济有这么大的影响力，它还拥有和外国政府及央行签署协议的权力，它的行动如果不被监管的话，是不合情理的。
- unconscionable (adj.) 1560s, "showing no regard for conscience," from un- (1) + now rare conscionable "conscientious." Related: Unconscionably.
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