unadaptable
adjective uk/ˌʌn.əˈdæp.tə.bəl/ us/ˌʌn.əˈdæp.tə.bəl/
不能适应的;不适合的
not able or willing to change or be changed in order to suit different conditions
He was a Southern gentleman and that made him unadaptable to life in the hustling Midwest. 他是一位来自南方的绅士,无法适应中西部的生活。
(艺术作品等)不可改编的
(of an artistic work) not able to be changed into a different form
Long thought unadaptable, Mervyn Peake's fantastical tale finally makes it to the small screen. 长期以来,默文·皮克的奇幻故事被认为是不可改编的,现在终于被搬上了小银幕。
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- I believe he's a dying breed and, like all unadaptable life forms, will become extinct.
- I couldn't understand why people were so unadaptable and stuck in their ways.
- Charlotte Jones adapted Wilkie Collins's "unadaptable" novel The Woman in White.
- There would be the temptation to make the movie an adaptation of the novel, and the novel is unadaptable.