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.

  1. 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
  2. (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

    1. ADJ-GRADED (事物)高深莫测的,深奥的
      If you describe something as unfathomable, 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!
    2. ADJ (人或表情)难以捉摸的
      If you use unfathomable to 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

    双语例句

    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!
    3. 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。
    4. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was his choice?
      处在四周被深不可测的悬崖围困之中,他的选择是什么?
    5. 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!
    6. O man unfathomable. It was his hour of triumph.
      这个深奥莫测的人呐,这是他大获全胜的时刻。
    7. The human's capacity to be resilient to redials is unfathomable.
      人类对困难的适应能力无可限量。
    8. 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。
    9. 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。
    10. Homes decorated with a hexagonal column wells, called mannose Well, unfathomable, water cooler Gan Lie.
      院中有一口六角饰栏的水井,叫甘露井,深不可测,井水清凉甘洌。
    11. 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?
    12. 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。
    13. 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。
    14. The virgin forest is so mysterious and unfathomable.
      原始森林神秘莫测,又被称为处女林。
    15. What goes on between'You and Me'fills the world with affection and devotion – turning an unfathomable future into a tangible dream.
      你和我让世界充满温情与眷恋,你和我使遥远的未来变得可以触摸和期待,你和我让冷漠而世俗的世界变得温暖而明媚。
    16. I happen to have had all these things, but this is something much more-something at an unfathomable depth that is crying to be released, trying to tell me something.
      那些东西碰巧我都有,但我渴望的远远不只这些&在深不可测的地方有某种东西急切地想要释放出来,试图告诉我什么。
    17. Once people heard about our situation, we've received an unfathomable amount of support& dinners, gifts, well wishes, help with the kids and especially prayers.
      当人们听到我们的情况,我们已经收到深不可测的支持-晚餐,礼物,祝福,特别是祈祷。
    18. Genius is suffering for a stepping stone capable person, is a wealth of the weak, is an unfathomable abyss.
      巴尔扎克英语名人名言:“苦难对于天才是一块垫脚石,对能干的人是一笔财富,对弱者是一个万丈深渊。”的翻译。
    19. It looks so mystique and so unfathomable.
      它看起来如此神秘和深不可测。
    20. Though the sword did grant him unfathomable power, it also stole his soul and transformed him into the greatest of the Lich King's death knights.
      虽然这把剑的确给他带来了深不可测的力量,但它同时也夺取了王子的灵魂,使他变成巫妖王手下最强大的死亡骑士。
    21. In the beginning, spirituality appears like the bud on a bloom, opening gradually, tempting us with a glimpse of its splendor and unfathomable depths.
      一开始,精神似乎在萌芽状态,然后逐步开放,诱使我们去一睹它的辉煌和无尽的奥秘。
    22. Perhaps one of the most unfathomable things is why Mr Kan did not have the wit to turn that to his advantage.
      也许,最深不可测的事情是为什么菅直人没有能力将群众的愤怒转变成自己的优势。
    23. 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。
    24. A philosophy complex and, to the ordinary thinker, quite fathomless; unfathomable theories.
      复杂而且对普通人而言非常深奥的哲学;深奥的理论。
    25. Like so many academics, he hides behind a lot of unfathomable hocus-pocus.
      和许多学者一样,他隐藏在一大堆高深莫测、故弄玄虚的语言背后。
    26. 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。
    27. In desperation, her unfathomable at Mount Etna volcano two pine torches lit to light up a whole world bright.
      无奈之下,她在深不可测的埃特纳火山口点燃了两支松木火把,把整个世界照得一片通明。
    28. 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。
    29. How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
      我们每个人享受的时间,只是那无穷无尽、深不可测的时间中少之又少的一部分!转瞬就会被永恒吞没。

    英英释义

    adj

    1. impossible to come to understand

      1. resembling an abyss in depth
        1. the abyssal depths of the ocean

        Synonym:    abysmalabyssal

      2. of depth