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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 in·ex·o·ra·ble /(ˌ)ɪˈnɛksrəbəl, ˈnɛksə, ˈnɛgzərə-/
 (a.)無情的,冷酷的,不屈不撓的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·ex·o·ra·ble a.  Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; -- of people and impersonal forces; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge; the inexorable advance of a glacier. Inexorable equality of laws.” --Gibbon. “Death's inexorable doom.”
 You are more inhuman, more inexorable,
 O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania.   --Shak.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 inexorable
      adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim
             determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
             hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable
             certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern
             demands of parenthood" [syn: grim, relentless, stern,
              unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
      2: not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course;
         unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal
         to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would
         have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent
         conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" [syn: adamant,
          adamantine, intransigent]