Unspeakable
[ʌn'spiːkəb(ə)l] or [ʌn'spikəbl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Inexpressible, unutterable, ineffable, indescribable, beyond expression.
安东尼編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. incapable of being spoken uttered or described.—v.t. Unspeak′ (Shak.) to retract as what has been spoken.—adv. Unspea′kably in an unspeakable or inexpressible manner.—adj. Unspea′king not being able to speak.
錄入:昆西
例句/造句/用法:
- I hear in that fane an unspeakable sound. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Dreadful doubt and anguish--prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable--followed the regiment. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For her there was influence unspeakable in all he uttered, wrote, thought, or looked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I used to feel it like a baleful air or sigh, penetrate deep, and make motion pause at my heart, or proceed only under unspeakable oppression. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My rage is unspeakable, when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Question: And unspeakable vexation? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What fate is prepared beyond the grave for her, to whom God has assigned on earth a lot of such unspeakable wretchedness? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- That they should be allowed to invade the education of the elite is unspeakable. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is such unspeakable moral compensation to Wegg, to be overcome by the consideration that Mr Rokesmith has an underhanded mind! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It would have been an unspeakable indulgence. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The little old man put his head more on one side, and rubbed his hands with unspeakable glee. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm round the blue waist of my dear divinity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He regarded her from a point of view which in its remoteness, tender as it was, he little thought would have been unspeakable agony to her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But Madame Fosco seemed resolved not to part with me, and to my unspeakable amazement, resolved also to talk. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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