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

• 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。
• 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。
• Our hearts and spirits are as mysterious and unfathomable as the virgin forest.
  你我的心灵，又何尝不似原始森林一般神秘莫测？
• Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was his choice?
  处在四周被深不可测的悬崖围困之中，他的选择是什么？
• 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。
• 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。
• Our ignorance has nothing to do with the old orientalist notion that Arabs are unfathomable beings.
  我们的无知与认为阿拉伯人深不可测的老式东方主义观点无关。
• 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。
• The fluctuating stock price is the most unfathomable but also the most attractive element in the stock market.
  在股票市场中最令人捉摸不定，也最具有吸引力的是波动不已的股票价格。
• 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。