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

• As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person.
  作为一个抽象概念，爱，通常指一种深深的无法形容的情感，一种关心他人的温柔。
• 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。
• I'm sure that if I don't find such a person repulsive, such boldness between the sexes could produce ineffable happiness, a feeling as though the flesh were melting away.
  这种两性间的大胆，我想只要不厌烦那人，是也会像把肉体来融化了的感到快乐，是无疑。
• 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。
• 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。
• You could not find proper words to express your happy feeling so you can say that your happy feeling is ineffable.
  你无法找到合适的词表达你的喜悦，所以，你可以说，你的喜悦是难以言语形容的。
• "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。
• 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。
• 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。