unutterable

英 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

美 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

adj.  难以言表的; 说不出的

BNC.39325 / COCA.37267

牛津词典

adj.

• 难以言表的；说不出的
  used to emphasize how great a particular emotion or quality is
  1. unutterable sadness
     无法形容的悲伤

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （尤指不好的事情）无以名状的，难以形容的，莫名的
  You can useunutterableto emphasize that something, especially a bad quality, is great in degree or intensity.
  1. I am at the beginning of a new and unutterable loneliness.
     我再次陷入莫名的孤独寂寞中。
  2. ...unutterable rubbish.
     一派胡言

英英释义

adj

• very difficult to pronounce correctly
  1. an unpronounceable foreign word
  2. unutterable consonant clusters
  Synonym:unpronounceable
• 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:indefinableindescribableineffableunspeakableuntellable
• too sacred to be uttered
  1. the ineffable name of the Deity
  Synonym:ineffableunnameableunspeakable

双语例句

• After that the blackness of unutterable night.
  在那以后，就是无法形容的漫长黑夜了。
• I had scarcely seen him when I was filled with unutterable joy and inconceivable bliss.
  我一看见他，心中就有说不出的愉悦。
• During a life's journey, the worst thing that can happen to a person is perhaps not poverty nor misfortune, but an unutterable, nagging sense of languor.
  在人生的旅途中，最糟糕的境遇往往不是贫困、不是厄运，而是精神和心境处于一种无知无觉的疲惫状态。
• We are not worthy that he should come under our roof, but what an unutterable privilege when he condescends to enter!
  祂来到我们的寒舍，我们本是不配，但祂却进入了，那是何等奇妙的恩宠啊！
• The Captain seemed to make an endeavour to rise from the depths of his astonishment, and get back to his face; but the effort being ineffectual, the glazed hat merely nodded with a mute, unutterable meaning.
  船长似乎竭力想从他震惊的深渊中挣扎起来，恢复脸上的表情，但却徒劳无益；那上了光的帽子只是默默无声地、带着难以表达的含意点了一下头。
• So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow; while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.
  于是，他们默默忍受着难言曲折磨，在同伴中走来走去，表面象新落下的雪一般地纯洁，而内心却沾满了无法洗刷的斑痕。
• In their echoes, there was a tone of unutterable sorrow.
  他们波动的回声中带有一种难言的悲哀。
• I burned in the unutterable beauty of being alive ( John Peale Bishop) See Synonyms at unspeakable
  我燃烧于生活的无法表达的美妙之中（约翰皮尔毕晓普）参见
• It would be fitting if at Brzezinka the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror.
  布热金卡应当是个永远没有阳光、百花永远凋谢的地方，因为这里曾经是人间地狱。
• It is a picture of an inferable sorrow preparing the way for an unutterable and final joy.
  这幅图画所描绘的，是一种无可言喻最终的喜乐来临之前，短暂的哀伤。