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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The virgin forest is so mysterious and unfathomable.
  原始森林神秘莫测，又被称为处女林。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。