ineffable
英 [ɪnˈefəbl]
美 [ɪnˈefəbl]
adj. (美好得)难以形容的，不可言喻的
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- ineffable joy
难以形容的喜悦
- ineffable joy
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.- ...the ineffable sadness of many of the portraits.
许多肖像流露出的难以形容的悲伤
- ...the ineffable sadness of many of the portraits.
英英释义
adj
- defying expression or description
- indefinable yearnings
- indescribable beauty
- ineffable ecstasy
- inexpressible anguish
- unspeakable happiness
- unutterable contempt
- a thing of untellable splendor
- too sacred to be uttered
- the ineffable name of the Deity
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - "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。 - Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality.
这样的一天是梦幻和现实的混合。 - 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。 - Such ineffable joy must be experienced; it can hardly be described.
这种内心的喜悦只能意会，不能言传。 - This kind of feeling is really ineffable!
这种感觉真是无法形容啊！ - Something as ineffable as where you focus your attention can make your whole brain work differently.
人的注意力集中在不同地方，整个大脑的运行方式也就不同。 - 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。 - But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which transfigured her in her sleep.
但是在她脸上，有一种无可形容的安闲态度，使她在睡眠中显得另有一番神色，那种苦痛的呼吸并不怎么影响她。她的面容已由黄变白，两颊却绯红。