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

• 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。
• My little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
  我的小小的心，消融在无边快乐之中，发出不可言说的词调。
• 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。
• It was the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal.
  那是两颗童贞的心在理想境界中的无可名状的初次燃烧。
• It is said to be intolerant of uncertainty in human behavior, and refuses to recognize the private, the ineffable, and the unpredictable.
  它据说对人类行为的不确定有着偏狭性，并拒绝承认私人的，有避讳的，以及难以预测的情况。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。