inevitable: [15] Latin ēvītāre meant ‘avoid’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘away, from’ and vītāre ‘shun’, and actually produced an English verb evite ‘avoid’, a scholarly 16th-century introduction which survived as an archaism into the 19th century. Its derived adjective was ēvītābilis ‘avoidable’, which with the negative prefix became inēvītābilis.
inevitable (adj.)
mid-15c., from Latin inevitabilis "unavoidable," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + evitabilis "avoidable," from evitare "to avoid," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + vitare "shun," originally "go out of the way."
雙語例句
1. Most unions see privatisation as an inevitable prelude to job losses.
大多數工會認為私有化會不可避免地導致失業。
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2. Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax.
巴裏緊隨德克·博加德之後發表了演講，不出所料，演講頓時變得索然無味。
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3. Some backtracking is probably inevitable.
有時改變決定可能是不可避免的。
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4. This scarcity is inevitable in less developed countries.
這一匱乏在欠發達國家不可避免。
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5. Diplomats believe that bureaucratic delays are inevitable.