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.

  1. (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

  1. ADJ 言语难以表达的;不可言喻的
    You use ineffable to 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

双语例句

  1. It turns out that the ineffable thing we call charisma has two primary elements, strength and warmth.
    事实证明,这种被我们称之为“魅力”的、难以言说的东西由两个主要元素组成&强势与同情心。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. They might have torn out his nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable name, Cosette, was composed.
    他宁肯让人家拔掉他的指甲,也不会说出构成珂赛特这个不当泄露的神圣名字的那三个音节中的一个。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. Something as ineffable as where you focus your attention can make your whole brain work differently.
    人的注意力集中在不同地方,整个大脑的运行方式也就不同。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. In a mysterious universe, says Arnold Toynbee, man tries to express what they can of the ineffable.
    阿诺德·汤因比称,在神秘的宇宙中,人类总试图表达他们无法表达的东西。
  11. This kind of feeling is really ineffable!
    这种感觉真是无法形容啊!
  12. Sometimes music can produce an ineffable joy.
    音乐有时候能使人产生一种难以形容的喜悦。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. 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。
  18. Why to meet occasionally ineffable sadness?
    为什么有时候会莫名的悲伤?
  19. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.
    一个绚丽得无法形容的宇宙展现在他脑海里,这时小钟在洗脸架上滴答滴答地响着,月亮用水一般的光浸泡着他乱七八糟仍在地上的衣服。
  20. He put on a look of ineffable distress and said that he was aware how God had afflicted her.
    他摆出一副说不出多么伤感的神色说,他知道上帝怎样折磨了她。
  21. 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。
  22. "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。
  23. 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。
  24. In its solemn hymn to the ineffable dark.
    开始于它对难以形容的黑暗所作的庄严的赞歌。
  25. Or the ineffable Zen, which is the so-called unity of heaven and man?
    或者是所谓天人合一的不可言说的禅意?
  26. 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。
  27. When we go home to see the favor of the parents are jumping, their mood had no less than a grand festival, ineffable feeling of happiness.
    当我们见到回家的父母更是欢心跳跃,其心情不亚于过盛大的节日,幸福之情不可言喻。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
  30. Such ineffable joy must be experienced; it can hardly be described.
    这种内心的喜悦只能意会,不能言传。

英英释义

adj

  1. 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

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

    Synonym:    unnameableunspeakableunutterable