unutterable

英 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl] 美 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

adj.  难以言表的; 说不出的

BNC.39325 / COCA.37267



牛津词典

adj.

  1. 难以言表的;说不出的
    used to emphasize how great a particular emotion or quality is
    1. unutterable sadness
      无法形容的悲伤

柯林斯词典

  1. ADJ-GRADED (尤指不好的事情)无以名状的,难以形容的,莫名的
    You can use unutterable to emphasize that something, especially a bad quality, is great in degree or intensity.
    1. I am at the beginning of a new and unutterable loneliness.
      我再次陷入莫名的孤独寂寞中。
    2. ...unutterable rubbish.
      一派胡言

双语例句

  1. I am at the beginning of a new and unutterable loneliness.
    我再次陷入莫名的孤独寂寞中。
  2. In their echoes, there was a tone of unutterable sorrow.
    他们波动的回声中带有一种难言的悲哀。
  3. At the sight of the unutterable passion of that look I could hardly contain myself.
    看见那种说不出的苦闷的神情,我简直控制不住自己了。
  4. After that the blackness of unutterable night.
    在那以后,就是无法形容的漫长黑夜了。
  5. And I conceive, moreover, that the hearts holding such miserable secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.
    何况,我还设想,如你所说的那种怀有这些痛苦的隐私的心,到了最后那一天非袒露不可的时候,不是不情愿的,倒是带着一种难言的愉快的。
  6. So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow; while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.
    于是,他们默默忍受着难言曲折磨,在同伴中走来走去,表面象新落下的雪一般地纯洁,而内心却沾满了无法洗刷的斑痕。
  7. The acuteness and the significance of the Captain's eye as he cocked it in reply, no words short of those unutterable Chinese words before referred to could describe.
    船长的眼睛向上一瞟作为回答,那眼光的锐利与意味深长,除了前面提到的不能发音的中国语言外,其他语言都不能形容。
  8. The Captain seemed to make an endeavour to rise from the depths of his astonishment, and get back to his face; but the effort being ineffectual, the glazed hat merely nodded with a mute, unutterable meaning.
    船长似乎竭力想从他震惊的深渊中挣扎起来,恢复脸上的表情,但却徒劳无益;那上了光的帽子只是默默无声地、带着难以表达的含意点了一下头。
  9. Unutterable destruction and devastation were wrought last autumn.
    去年秋天造成了无以言宣的破坏和毁灭。
  10. It is a picture of an inferable sorrow preparing the way for an unutterable and final joy.
    这幅图画所描绘的,是一种无可言喻最终的喜乐来临之前,短暂的哀伤。
  11. I had scarcely seen him when I was filled with unutterable joy and inconceivable bliss.
    我一看见他,心中就有说不出的愉悦。
  12. We are not worthy that he should come under our roof, but what an unutterable privilege when he condescends to enter!
    祂来到我们的寒舍,我们本是不配,但祂却进入了,那是何等奇妙的恩宠啊!
  13. And what is the essence of that strange and bitter miracle of life which we feel so poignant, so unutterable, with such a bitter pain and joy, when we are young?
    我们在青春年少时带着悲喜交集的心情,十分强烈而不可名状地感受到人生的奇特辛酸、不可思议的经历。其实质是什么呢?
  14. There was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn't true.
    我无话可说,除了这个说不出来的事实:事情并不是这样的。
  15. I burned in the unutterable beauty of being alive ( John Peale Bishop) See Synonyms at unspeakable
    我燃烧于生活的无法表达的美妙之中(约翰皮尔毕晓普)参见
  16. An unpronounceable foreign word; unutterable consonant clusters.
    很难发音的外语词;难发音的辅音丛。
  17. He has passed through unutterable agonies.
    他已经历了有口难言的烦恼。
  18. In the night, I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear.
    而晚上,我会不断从无法言表的噩梦中惊醒。
  19. Inconceivable and unutterable were the wonderful and astonishing actions which he performed for the bebefit of his chief disciples.
    他教化他的主要弟子的事迹令人称奇,妙不可言。
  20. What unutterable pathos was in his voice!
    他的声音里有着多么难以形容的哀愁!
  21. During a life's journey, the worst thing that can happen to a person is perhaps not poverty nor misfortune, but an unutterable, nagging sense of languor.
    在人生的旅途中,最糟糕的境遇往往不是贫困、不是厄运,而是精神和心境处于一种无知无觉的疲惫状态。
  22. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of god.
    他知道他一跟这个姑娘亲吻,并把他那些无法形容的憧憬和她短暂的呼吸永远结合在一起,他的心灵就再也不会像上帝的心灵一样自由驰骋了。
  23. Unutterable pain, delight, boredom, relief, etc
    不可言状的痛苦、欢愉、厌倦、宽慰等
  24. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    在目前,我们的说不出来的话,也许在别处已经说出来了。
  25. It would be fitting if at Brzezinka the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror.
    布热金卡应当是个永远没有阳光、百花永远凋谢的地方,因为这里曾经是人间地狱。
  26. But what from almost any point of view we find so difficult to understand is, the unutterable abasement of the Leaders of Israel, their moral suicide as regarded Israel's hope and spiritual existence.
    但是,从几乎任何角度来看我们发现很难理解的是,自卑的难言的以色列领导人,他们的道德自杀视为以色列的希望和精神的存在。

英英释义

adj

  1. very difficult to pronounce correctly
    1. an unpronounceable foreign word
    2. unutterable consonant clusters

    Synonym:    unpronounceable

  2. 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:    indefinableindescribableineffableunspeakableuntellable

  3. too sacred to be uttered
    1. the ineffable name of the Deity

    Synonym:    ineffableunnameableunspeakable