To say it aloud would be to make it final, absolute, irretrievable.

如果大声地说出来，就会使这件事情彻底终结，彻底无法挽回了。

But is it so utterly irretrievable?

但这真的是无法挽回的吗？

You look upon the defeat as irretrievable?

你认为失败是无法挽回的？

He was quite convinced that nothing irretrievable would ever happen to him.

他深信，在他身上绝对不会发生什么无法挽回的事情。

Even the feeling of the ring on her hand had not brought her this sharp sense of the irretrievable.

甚至戒指戴在手上的感觉都没有给她带来这种无法挽回的敏锐感觉。

And it would embody a sense of nostalgia we feel for an irretrievable past and apprehension about an alienating future.

它会体现我们对无法挽回的过去的怀旧感和对疏远未来的担忧。

His heart was full, and his conscience tortured by remorse; for he accused himself more bitterly than ever of being the cause of the irretrievable disaster.

这次无可挽回的祸事使他的心情很沉重；他的良心深感不安，他不住地在怨恨自己。

Untold tonnes end up as irretrievable ocean flotsam, which sunlight and salt fragment into microscopic pieces that attract toxins and may be gulped by creatures that become seafood.

无数吨塑料最后变成了无法清理的海洋漂浮垃圾，在日光和盐分的作用下破裂成会吸附毒素的微小碎片，可能会被海洋生物吃掉，最终又上了我们的餐桌。

Do you think, then, dear Clifford, " added she, with a wretched smile, " that I have brought an irretrievable disgrace on the old house, by opening a little shop in the front gable?

那么，亲爱的克利福德， 你认为我在前面的山墙上开了一家小店， 给老房子带来了无可挽回的耻辱吗？ ” 她苦笑着补充道。