If you describe someone as redoubtable, you respect them because they have a very strong character, even though you are slightly afraid of them.
例句
...the redoubtable Mr Brooks...令人敬畏的布鲁克斯先生He is a redoubtable fighter.他是一位可敬的战士。
英汉词典释义
adj.
可怕的,厉害的
a redoubtable enemy可怕的敌人
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. inspiring fear;
"the formidable prospect of major surgery""a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston"something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"
2. having or worthy of pride;
"redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance""born of a redoubtable family"