单词 | unfathomable |
释义 | unfathomable (ʌnfæðəməbəl ) 1. adjective If you describe something as unfathomable, you mean that it cannot be understood or explained, usually because it is very strange or complicated. For some unfathomable reason, there are no stairs where there should be. How odd life was, how unfathomable, how profoundly unjust. 2. adjective If you use unfathomable to 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. [literary] ...a strange, unfathomable and unpredictable individual. ...the dark eyes that right now seemed opaque and unfathomable. Collocations: almost unfathomable It seems almost unfathomable that anyone could waste so much money and still have a team that can only bump along in the Championship. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Not simply being asked to share a family supper, but a whole new social nightmare of almost unfathomable hospitable anxiety. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It would not further confuse a public who already find the machinations of Westminster almost unfathomable. Times, Sunday Times (2014) All this would be almost unfathomable to the generation before us. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It was almost unfathomable to me how she could get through it all as a pregnant woman. Times, Sunday Times (2007) For some unfathomable reason most of the bags are sealed on all four sides, which means that they have to carefully prised open. Times, Sunday Times (2010) But for some unfathomable reason these are seen as negative qualities. The Sun (2006) For some unfathomable reason others do not seem to grasp this elementary etiquette. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Yet a single muscle that twitches in his cheek as he speaks conveys the unfathomable depth of his disgust at what he has become. Times, Sunday Times She talks from a place of unfathomable depth. Times, Sunday Times But just as the happiness of young love matures into a bundle of sorrowful bliss, in the same way, my intense interaction with words kept reaching an unfathomable depth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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