He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.
They had explained away Harry's long absences at Hogwarts over the last three years by telling everyone that he went to St. Brutus's Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.
A peasant caught shooting a rabbit on a lord's estate or a luckless servant girl who purloined a pocket handkerchief was branded as a criminal along with sturdy thieves and incorrigible rascals.
We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already.
我们永远不会变得富有,Plumfield 可能会在任何一个晚上燃烧起来,因为那个不可救药 Tommy Bangs 会在被褥下抽甜蕨类雪茄,尽管他已经三次自焚了。
What was once a fortress for the irredeemable is now a hotspot for tourists—over a million of them, eager to experience what it's like to visit prison, minus the lifetime sentence.
Conway was puzzled as to the ultimate basis of law and order; there appeared to be neither soldiers nor police, yet surely some provision must be made for the incorrigible?
There'd be something irredeemable about them, some horrible, awful quality that would give me an excuse, no, an obligation to remove him from the town permanently with violence.
You guys are what the authorities have called “the incorrigibles”, because in the prisons where you have come from you just couldn’t stop causing trouble.