irretrievably

1. ADJ 无法挽救的;无法弥补的
   If you talk about irretrievable damage or an irretrievable situation, you mean that the damage or situation is so bad that there is no possibility of putting it right.
   1. What a tragedy if the sport suffers irretrievable damage because this issue is ducked.
      如果该运动因这一问题被回避而承受无法弥补的损失,那将是何种悲剧。
   2. ...a country in irretrievable decline.
      无可挽回地走向衰落的国家

1. A spokesman for News Corp. said the court filing describes that their relationship had broken down irretrievably in the last six months.
   新闻集团的一位发言人表示，在法院申请文书中，描述他们的感情在过去六个月里已经到了无法挽回的地步。
2. Murdoch stated their relationship had broken down irretrievably.
   默多克说他们的关系破裂已经到了无法挽回的地步了。
3. A way of life is irretrievably passing, as the conditions of postmodernity bring with bewildering changes.
   随着后现代环境带来了令人困惑的变化，一种生活方式无可挽回地成为了过去。
4. The marriage had broken down irretrievably by then.
   到那时婚姻已无可挽回地失败了。
5. Imperialism is irretrievably on the decline. From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal sureness.
   帝国主义正在无可挽救地衰落下去。年复一年，这个人的心慢慢地、但是无可挽救地越变越硬了。
6. Imperialism is irretrievably on the decline.
   帝国主义正在无可挽救地没落下去。
7. But the Chinese empire was repeatedly restored and enlarged, while the Roman empire divided irretrievably.
   但中华帝国反复重生和扩张，而罗马帝国不可挽回地分裂了。
8. The good news is that well-established brands can take a lot of punishment before they are irretrievably damaged.
   好消息是，在造成无法挽回的损失之前，知名品牌能够经受诸多惩罚。
9. And the threads which Bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably Broken.
   不过，那些把她和故乡和少女时代联系在一起缕缕细丝却是永久地割断了。
10. He has irretrievably compromised himself by accepting money from them.
    他因收了他们的钱铸成大错害了自己。
11. The local ecosystem will be irretrievably damaged if the road is built.
    如果筑这条公路的话，当地的生态系统将受到无法弥补的破坏。
12. But the blast probably marked the point at which events in Iraq spiralled irretrievably out of control.
    不过，此次爆炸也许标志着，在伊拉克发生的各种事件，出现了无可挽回的失控。
13. As Schumpeter wrote more than 70 years ago: This economic system cannot do without the ultima ratio of the complete destruction of those existences which are irretrievably associated with the hopelessly unadapted.
    正如熊彼德70多年前所写道的：这个经济系统不能没有彻底毁灭那些生存者的最终手段，这些生存者不可挽回地与那些没有希望的不适应生存者联系在一起。
14. Rules regarding how banks account for off-balance sheet interests are irretrievably broken, a senior group of international rule makers has warned.
    一家资深的国际法规制定者团体警告说，有关银行如何记录资产负债表外权益的规定已被彻底破产，无法修补。
15. It is always an effort to challenge habits that are irretrievably misdirected, but, sometimes one must.
    改变一个深根蒂固的坏习惯是需要一定的勇气的，但是，有时候人们必须这么做。
16. The war was irretrievably lost.
    这场战争已必输无疑。
17. We have broken irretrievably with the past.
    我们已无可挽回地与过去决裂了。
18. This nomadic clan has not kept pace with the world, and their lives ( like those of their reindeer) are irretrievably disrupted by the forces of modernity.
    这个游牧的部落没有跟上时代的步伐，他们的生活（与驯鹿一样）难以挽回地被现代社会的洪流所冲乱。
19. Some of our old traditions are irretrievably lost.
    我们的一些老传统已经失传，无法追溯。
20. The lack of planned and affordable land, which is the basic component of cemeteries calls for the responsibility of urban planners to address the problem before the situation slips irretrievably out of control.
    经规划的、可供应的土地是墓地的基本组成部分，而如今此种资源的匮乏呼唤着城市规划者在势态超出我们掌控能力之前先天下之忧而忧一番。

adv

1. in an irretrievable manner
   1. it is irretrievably lost