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

• 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。
• A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
  一个绚丽得无法形容的宇宙展现在他脑海里，这时小钟在洗脸架上滴答滴答地响着，月亮用水一般的光浸泡着他乱七八糟仍在地上的衣服。
• It is said to be intolerant of uncertainty in human behavior, and refuses to recognize the private, the ineffable, and the unpredictable.
  它据说对人类行为的不确定有着偏狭性，并拒绝承认私人的，有避讳的，以及难以预测的情况。
• 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。
• They might have torn out his nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable name, Cosette, was composed.
  他宁肯让人家拔掉他的指甲，也不会说出构成珂赛特这个不当泄露的神圣名字的那三个音节中的一个。
• 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。
• 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。
• The most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and supplying the vanished universe to you.
  那种不可磨灭的女性的语声既可以催你入睡，又可以为你代替那失去了的宇宙。
• This kind of feeling is really ineffable!
  这种感觉真是无法形容啊！
• Why to meet occasionally ineffable sadness?
  为什么有时候会莫名的悲伤？