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

• Was caught up into Paradise and heard ineffable things, which no one may utter.
  他被提到乐园里去，听到了不可言传的话，是人不能说出的。
• 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。
• By virtue of something ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his eyes which she could not see.
  她看不见他的眼睛，却感到他的目光里有一种说不上来的难以表达和忧伤的东西把她裹住了。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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。
• The most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and supplying the vanished universe to you.
  那种不可磨灭的女性的语声既可以催你入睡，又可以为你代替那失去了的宇宙。
• 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。
• One person has an ineffable and tender feeling toward another person, which withstands the test of time.
  一个经的住时间考验的人对另外的人有一种说不出的柔柔的感觉。
• This kind of feeling is really ineffable!
  这种感觉真是无法形容啊！