There has been much controversy over shock treatments-whether or not they did irremediable harm.
人们对于电击疗法有很大争议——它是否会对人体造成无可弥补
伤害。

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) Elizabeth particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
其实她母亲对待这两位贵客完全是轻重倒置,因为她心爱
一个女儿多亏了达西先生
搭救,才能免于身败名裂,伊丽莎白对这事
经过知道得极其详细,所以特别觉得难受。
Another friend, Carrick Venn, a student of medicine whom irremediable ill-health had kept from the practice of his profession, amused his leisure with experiments in physics, for the exercise of which he had set up a simple laboratory.
另一位朋友卡里克·维恩 (Carrick Venn) 是一名医学生,由于无法治愈
疾病而无法从事他
职业,他用物理实验来消遣自己
空闲时间,为此他建立了一个简单
实验室。
It was his large-hearted indulgence that made him ignore his mother's hardness towards her daughters, which was the more striking from its contrast with her doting fondness towards himself; he held it no virtue to frown at irremediable faults.
正是他宽厚
纵容让他忽略了母亲对女儿
严厉,这与她对自己
溺爱形成鲜明对比;他认为对无法补救
错误皱眉是没有好处
。