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

• 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。
• How odd life was, how unfathomable, how profoundly unjust.
  生活多么离奇，多么莫测，多么不公啊！
• In desperation, her unfathomable at Mount Etna volcano two pine torches lit to light up a whole world bright.
  无奈之下，她在深不可测的埃特纳火山口点燃了两支松木火把，把整个世界照得一片通明。
• It looks so mystique and so unfathomable.
  它看起来如此神秘和深不可测。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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！