ineffable

英 [ɪnˈefəbl]

美 [ɪnˈefəbl]

adj.  (美好得)难以形容的，不可言喻的

GRE

BNC.26639 / COCA.21779

牛津词典

adj.

• （美好得）难以形容的，不可言喻的
  too great or beautiful to describe in words
  1. ineffable joy
     难以形容的喜悦

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 言语难以表达的;不可言喻的
  You useineffableto say that something is so great or extreme that it cannot be described in words.
  1. ...the ineffable sadness of many of the portraits.
     许多肖像流露出的难以形容的悲伤

英英释义

adj

• defying expression or description
  1. indefinable yearnings
  2. indescribable beauty
  3. ineffable ecstasy
  4. inexpressible anguish
  5. unspeakable happiness
  6. unutterable contempt
  7. a thing of untellable splendor
  Synonym:indefinableindescribableunspeakableuntellableunutterable
• too sacred to be uttered
  1. the ineffable name of the Deity
  Synonym:unnameableunspeakableunutterable

双语例句

• One person has an ineffable and tender feeling toward another person, which withstands the test of time.
  一个经的住时间考验的人对另外的人有一种说不出的柔柔的感觉。
• In its solemn hymn to the ineffable dark.
  开始于它对难以形容的黑暗所作的庄严的赞歌。
• I'm sure that if I don't find such a person repulsive, such boldness between the sexes could produce ineffable happiness, a feeling as though the flesh were melting away.
  这种两性间的大胆，我想只要不厌烦那人，是也会像把肉体来融化了的感到快乐，是无疑。
• It turns out that the ineffable thing we call charisma has two primary elements, strength and warmth.
  事实证明，这种被我们称之为“魅力”的、难以言说的东西由两个主要元素组成&强势与同情心。
• "You!" said the stately warrior, scanning the small form of the poet with ineffable disdain.
  “你！”威严的军人说，他用不可言喻的轻蔑眼光向小个子的诗人扫了一眼。
• In a mysterious universe, says Arnold Toynbee, man tries to express what they can of the ineffable.
  阿诺德·汤因比称，在神秘的宇宙中，人类总试图表达他们无法表达的东西。
• It was the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal.
  那是两颗童贞的心在理想境界中的无可名状的初次燃烧。
• Here comes such a subtile and ineffable quality, for instance, as truth or justice, though the slightest amount or new variety of it, along the road.
  这里来了这样一种难以捉摸而且不可言喻的品德，例如真理或公正，虽然量极少，虽然还是一个新的品种，然而它是沿着大路而来了。
• As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person.
  作为一个抽象概念，爱，通常指一种深深的无法形容的情感，一种关心他人的温柔。
• He put on a look of ineffable distress and said that he was aware how God had afflicted her.
  他摆出一副说不出多么伤感的神色说，他知道上帝怎样折磨了她。