untouchable
不可接触
definition
noun
During a recent visit, I found liberals and intellectuals, jet-setters and slum dwellers, men and women, Brahmins and untouchables expressing this Hindu pride.
a member of the lowest-caste Hindu group or a person outside the caste system. Contact with untouchables is traditionally held to defile members of higher castes.
adjective
a receptionist looking gorgeous and untouchable
not able or allowing to be touched or affected.
of or belonging to the lowest-caste Hindu group or the people outside the caste system.
translation of 'untouchable'
adjective
优,
独特的
example
Indeed, the citizenry's incentive to finger such bad guys isn't particularly strong when the word on the street is that the these people are 'untouchable' .
It was like reaching back in time and touching the 'untouchable' , the unknowable.
Cast in the role of liberation movement valiantly fighting multiple evils of the apartheid system, the ANC is able to situate itself on the virtually 'untouchable' high moral ground.
They were arrogant enough to think they were 'untouchable' , but they have been arrested.
Police were today still hunting the weapon used to kill the 6ft, 20-stone criminal, who boasted in a TV documentary that he was 'untouchable' .
They would at the very least hold on to their 13-point lead and with a game in hand over most of their rivals they would be virtually 'untouchable' with just four matches still to play.
They are 'untouchable' - nobody is prepared to go to court because they are too intimidated.
Agreed, Danny was 'untouchable' last year with his Yakumbuyo album to the extent that fans still talk about the title-track at his shows the moment he finishes performing Kaya.
The outcome was ‘diversity training’, which made self-designated victim groups such as women, gays or travellers virtually 'untouchable' .
It looked ethereal, almost 'untouchable' , and I fingered the silk, let it run between my fingers like water, then folded it up with the rest of my stuff that I would need.
The order should show that no one is 'untouchable' .
They think they are 'untouchable' because excuses are made for their appalling behaviour.
The life that can never be recreated is the invisible, 'untouchable' inner one, which cannot be reproduced even by the most psychoanalytical detective.
The match started promisingly for Oxford, as Hannah of Oriel was 'untouchable' in the hammer throw, achieving a match record of 37. 24m.
The classical epic was born in the silent era of Chaplin and Dietrich, and its success was synonymous with the golden age of Hollywood, a time of lavish productions and an exotic world of 'untouchable' screen icons.
From his days as a small-time fence selling stolen goods from Boston's second-hand shop in Leith to the years running guns and stolen vehicles up the coast of east Africa, it appeared that he was 'untouchable' .
The health service is very politicised in this country which makes it almost 'untouchable' .
He said: ‘Many offenders think that they are 'untouchable' and above the law.’
A month or so ago, Arsenal, 49 matches without defeat, looked 'untouchable' .
‘It was kind of a wake-up call that we're not 'untouchable' ,’ said Logan, who lives in the District.
He is one of Cincinnati's top prospects, and was deemed 'untouchable' when the team was negotiating the trade.
It was only during the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, when the monarchy was 'untouchable' , that George IV was able to force through the royal building-spree that culminated in Buckingham Palace.
Are we now to assume the England rugby team is officially 'untouchable' in the prize-giving context by all except an elite comprising members of the Royal Family, knights of the realm and fellow World Cup winners?
Protected by his alleged status as a police informer, and until recently by two bodyguards, he has become a Scottish Don Corleone, the feared head of an 'untouchable' empire.
Although there was no certainty as to the overall winner, at the time of going to press it looked like it would be the midland's day, as deputy presidential candidate, Derek from Carlow was already 'untouchable' .
If the government really wanted to restore the public trust they should go after execs like those at Adelphia and Enron that betray the public trust by acting like they are above the law, that corporate crime is 'untouchable' .
We all know that youths are 'untouchable' , that we're not allowed to defend ourselves and that authority is ridiculed.
While they were 'untouchable' last year, there may be four or five teams chasing Kilkenny's tail this year, each giving their fans a reason to feel optimistic about the summer.
These three Lebanese designers have not attempted to become the disembodied and 'untouchable' master architect.
If marriage is invincible, indelibly written on the human heart, 'untouchable' or only slightly touched by culture, where do all these fatherless families come from?
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