unfathomable

英 [ʌnˈfæðəməbl]

美 [ʌnˈfæðəməbl]

adj.  难以理解的; 莫测高深的; (表情)难以琢磨的，微妙的

TEM8

BNC.23619 / COCA.18629

牛津词典

adj.

• 难以理解的；莫测高深的
  too strange or difficult to be understood
  1. an unfathomable mystery
     难以解释的奥秘
• （表情）难以琢磨的，微妙的
  if sb has an unfathomable expression, it is impossible to know what they are thinking

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （事物）高深莫测的，深奥的
  If you describe something asunfathomable, you mean that it cannot be understood or explained, usually because it is very strange or complicated.
  1. For some unfathomable reason, there are no stairs where there should be...
     不知什么原因，本该有楼梯的地方却没有。
  2. How odd life was, how unfathomable, how profoundly unjust.
     生活多么离奇，多么莫测，多么不公啊！
• ADJ （人或表情）难以捉摸的
  If you useunfathomableto describe a person or the expression on their face, you mean that you cannot tell what they are thinking or what they intend to do.
  1. ...a strange, unfathomable and unpredictable individual.
     一个古怪、难以捉摸、反复无常的人
  2. ...the dark eyes that right now seemed opaque and unfathomable.
     此刻显得浑浊莫测的黑眼睛

英英释义

adj

• impossible to come to understand
• resembling an abyss in depth
  1. the abyssal depths of the ocean
  Synonym:abysmalabyssal
• of depth

双语例句

• Our hearts and spirits are as mysterious and unfathomable as the virgin forest.
  你我的心灵，又何尝不似原始森林一般神秘莫测？
• The fluctuating stock price is the most unfathomable but also the most attractive element in the stock market.
  在股票市场中最令人捉摸不定，也最具有吸引力的是波动不已的股票价格。
• By then mom and dad had been baptized, thrilled to start a newly freshened Christian life, while the unfathomable pools of doubt had started to consume me whole, starting off with chunk by chunk.
  后来爸爸妈妈受洗了，开始了他们崭新的基督徒生活。但是我当时的信念却开始被深深的疑惑侵蚀瓦解。
• I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness? That terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.
  我寻找爱，还因为它解除孤独，在可怕的孤独中，一颗颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘看到冰冷、无底、死寂的深渊。
• But the command-line isn't for everyone, and there there's a surprising number of Linux users who find it unfathomable and intimidating, perhaps even a reason to avoid the Linux completely.
  但是命令行并不适合所有人，觉得命令行难以理解和令人生畏的Linux用户数量多得令人吃惊，这或许是完全避免使用Linux的理由之一。
• Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the balances of destiny!
  两人的命运必须互相凭倚，才得平衡，这种妙用，天意使然，高深莫测！
• It was this demon that almost cast Europe into an unfathomable abyss of anguish and suffering.
  这个恶魔几乎把整个欧洲送进了一个苦难的无底深渊。
• The desert at night was like a black sea stretching out silently before them, profound, mysterious and unfathomable, as if waiting to swallow all life that dared to challenge it.
  黑夜中的沙漠，犹如一片黑色的海，在他们面前无边无际地静默着，显得那样的幽深、神秘而不可捉摸，似乎等候着吞没所有敢于篾视它的生命。
• Our ignorance has nothing to do with the old orientalist notion that Arabs are unfathomable beings.
  我们的无知与认为阿拉伯人深不可测的老式东方主义观点无关。
• Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.
  她虽然是从黑暗社会的那种不可测的深渊中生出来的，她的风度却使人摸不着她的出处和身世。