Immutable

(adj.) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature; 'the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God' .

西莉亚手打

• He argues with much force on general grounds that species are not immutable productions. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Darwin had always held that species were created immutable, and that it was impossible for one species to give rise to another. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But the habit of mind which would turn an instrument of life into an immutable law of its existence--that habit is always with us. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But those who see the absolute and eternal and immutable may be said to know, and not to have opinion only? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His face was immutable, aristocratic-looking, tinged slightly with grey under the skin; he was young and good-looking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Rosine was right; these utensils had in them a blank and immutable terror, beyond the mobile wrath of the wearer's own unglazed eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Growth and decay with all living things mark the immutable law of nature, and the inevitable fate of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But in sooth, Fate hath ruth, And this dream of youth May change from a dream to immutable truth. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• All these causes render the rules of justice stedfast and immutable; at least, as immutable as human nature. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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