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

• He put on a look of ineffable distress and said that he was aware how God had afflicted her.
  他摆出一副说不出多么伤感的神色说，他知道上帝怎样折磨了她。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Or the ineffable Zen, which is the so-called unity of heaven and man?
  或者是所谓天人合一的不可言说的禅意？
• This kind of feeling is really ineffable!
  这种感觉真是无法形容啊！
• 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。
• 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。
• I subscribe to the premise that this flawed perfection is sufficient and complete* in every single, ineffable moment.
  我同意的前提就是有缺陷的完美，已经足够和完整了，在每个不用说出的瞬间。