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

• Sometimes music can produce an ineffable joy.
  音乐有时候能使人产生一种难以形容的喜悦。
• When we go home to see the favor of the parents are jumping, their mood had no less than a grand festival, ineffable feeling of happiness.
  当我们见到回家的父母更是欢心跳跃，其心情不亚于过盛大的节日，幸福之情不可言喻。
• Finally, it is held to be ineffable, its essence incapable of being expressed or understood outside the experience itself.
  最后，它是举行可无法形容的，其本质无法表达或理解以外的经验本身。
• 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。
• 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。
• My little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
  我的小小的心，消融在无边快乐之中，发出不可言说的词调。
• 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 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。
• Knowing himself to be one with the Universal Spirit, he realizes ineffable Peace.
  他认识了自己和普遍宇宙精神为一体的时候，会意识到不可说的平静。