redoubtable

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She was a redoubtable woman, forging a career in a discipline—management in the engineering industry—where women were not at the time taken seriously.
她是一位杰出的女性，将职业和纪律融为了一体，即机器制造业管理学——当时在这个领域女性并没有受到重视。
A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years.
那种锐不可当的方法，加上他的天才，便使战场上的这位沉郁的挥拳好汉在十五年中所向披靡。
Said spoke of him reverentially - of his "redoubtable medical expertise and remarkable humanity" that kept him going during his darkest times, and there were many.
说，以他的虔诚-他的“可怕的医学专业知识和出色的人类”，那让他去他最黑暗的时代，有很多。

It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.
建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。
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Only the determination of the Transport Select Committee under its redoubtable chairman, Gwyneth Dunwoody, forced an independent inquiry.
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Businessmen such as the redoubtable union-busting Chris Corrigan, head of Patrick Corporation, disagree.
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Instead, they snipe at his foreign minister, the redoubtable Makiko Tanaka, a woman whose outspokenness is unsettling those who prefer Japan's usual ultra-cautious diplomacy.
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very strong, especially in character; producing respect and a little fear in others

If you describe someone as redoubtable, you respect them because they have a very strong character, even though you are slightly afraid of them.