unfathomable

英 [ʌnˈfæðəməbl]

美 [ʌnˈfæðəməbl]

adj.  难以理解的; 莫测高深的; (表情)难以琢磨的，微妙的

TEM8

BNC.23619 / COCA.18629

牛津词典

adj.

• 难以理解的；莫测高深的
  too strange or difficult to be understood
  1. an unfathomable mystery
     难以解释的奥秘
• （表情）难以琢磨的，微妙的
  if sb has an unfathomable expression, it is impossible to know what they are thinking

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （事物）高深莫测的，深奥的
  If you describe something asunfathomable, you mean that it cannot be understood or explained, usually because it is very strange or complicated.
  1. For some unfathomable reason, there are no stairs where there should be...
     不知什么原因，本该有楼梯的地方却没有。
  2. How odd life was, how unfathomable, how profoundly unjust.
     生活多么离奇，多么莫测，多么不公啊！
• ADJ （人或表情）难以捉摸的
  If you useunfathomableto describe a person or the expression on their face, you mean that you cannot tell what they are thinking or what they intend to do.
  1. ...a strange, unfathomable and unpredictable individual.
     一个古怪、难以捉摸、反复无常的人
  2. ...the dark eyes that right now seemed opaque and unfathomable.
     此刻显得浑浊莫测的黑眼睛

英英释义

adj

• impossible to come to understand
• resembling an abyss in depth
  1. the abyssal depths of the ocean
  Synonym:abysmalabyssal
• of depth

双语例句

• Once people heard about our situation, we've received an unfathomable amount of support& dinners, gifts, well wishes, help with the kids and especially prayers.
  当人们听到我们的情况，我们已经收到深不可测的支持-晚餐，礼物，祝福，特别是祈祷。
• Our ignorance has nothing to do with the old orientalist notion that Arabs are unfathomable beings.
  我们的无知与认为阿拉伯人深不可测的老式东方主义观点无关。
• In the beginning, spirituality appears like the bud on a bloom, opening gradually, tempting us with a glimpse of its splendor and unfathomable depths.
  一开始，精神似乎在萌芽状态，然后逐步开放，诱使我们去一睹它的辉煌和无尽的奥秘。
• In desperation, her unfathomable at Mount Etna volcano two pine torches lit to light up a whole world bright.
  无奈之下，她在深不可测的埃特纳火山口点燃了两支松木火把，把整个世界照得一片通明。
• The fluctuating stock price is the most unfathomable but also the most attractive element in the stock market.
  在股票市场中最令人捉摸不定，也最具有吸引力的是波动不已的股票价格。
• By then mom and dad had been baptized, thrilled to start a newly freshened Christian life, while the unfathomable pools of doubt had started to consume me whole, starting off with chunk by chunk.
  后来爸爸妈妈受洗了，开始了他们崭新的基督徒生活。但是我当时的信念却开始被深深的疑惑侵蚀瓦解。
• It was this demon that almost cast Europe into an unfathomable abyss of anguish and suffering.
  这个恶魔几乎把整个欧洲送进了一个苦难的无底深渊。
• The human's capacity to be resilient to redials is unfathomable.
  人类对困难的适应能力无可限量。
• I happen to have had all these things, but this is something much more-something at an unfathomable depth that is crying to be released, trying to tell me something.
  那些东西碰巧我都有，但我渴望的远远不只这些&在深不可测的地方有某种东西急切地想要释放出来，试图告诉我什么。
• Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.
  她虽然是从黑暗社会的那种不可测的深渊中生出来的，她的风度却使人摸不着她的出处和身世。