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

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