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

如果大声地说出来，就会使这件彻底终结，彻底无法挽回了。

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.

这次无可挽回祸使他心很沉重；他良心深不安，他不住地在怨恨自己。

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，亲爱克利福德， 你认为我在前面山墙了一家小店， 给老房子带来了无可挽回耻辱吗？ ” 她苦笑着补充道。

I see the odds as about 51% that we will succeed in getting onto a sustainable course, and no worse than 49% that we will make an irretrievable mess.

我认为我们有51%可能性成功走可持续发展道路，但也有不超过49%几率会陷入无法挽回困境。

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

甚至戒指戴在手觉都没有给她带来这种无法挽回敏锐觉。

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海洋漂浮垃圾，在日光和盐分作用下破裂成会吸附毒素微小碎片，可能会被海洋生物吃掉，最终又了我们餐桌。

After 1975, Australia permits no-fault divorce on the grounds only of the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage.

1975年后，澳大利亚仅以婚姻无可挽回地破裂为由，允许无过错离婚。

But is it so utterly irretrievable?

但这真是无法挽回吗？