unutterable

英 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

美 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

adj.  难以言表的; 说不出的

BNC.39325 / COCA.37267

牛津词典

adj.

• 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

• ADJ-GRADED （尤指不好的事情）无以名状的，难以形容的，莫名的
  You can useunutterableto 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

英英释义

adj

• very difficult to pronounce correctly
  1. an unpronounceable foreign word
  2. unutterable consonant clusters
  Synonym:unpronounceable
• 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
• too sacred to be uttered
  1. the ineffable name of the Deity
  Synonym:ineffableunnameableunspeakable

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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
• 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。
• An unpronounceable foreign word; unutterable consonant clusters.
  很难发音的外语词；难发音的辅音丛。
• 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。
• 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。