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

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。
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。
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。
"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。
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。
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。
Why to meet occasionally ineffable sadness?
为什么有时候会莫名的悲伤？
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。
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。
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。