| 单词 | unbearable |
| 释义 | unbearable (once / 1540 pages) adj When something's unbearable, you just can't take it. Your neighbor's loud music was always annoying, but when the walls shook until your favorite vase fell and broke you knew it had become unbearable. If you look at the adjective unbearable and strip away the prefix un- and the suffix -able, you have the word bear, meaning "to endure." Now put back those add-ons and you end up with a word that means "not able to endure." In other words, you can't stand it. You thought that your job as a police officer was tough until you volunteered to umpire a little league ballgame — the pressure was unbearable! WORD FAMILYunbearable: unbearably+/bear: bearable, bearer, bearing, bearish, bears, borne, forebear, overbear/bearable: bearably, unbearable/bearer: bearers/bearing: bearings, nonbearing/bearish: bearishly/forebear: forebears/overbear: overbearing, overbears, overbore, overborne/overbearing: overbearingly, overbearingness USAGE EXAMPLESThe idea is to hold two electrodes until the pain is unbearable – and pay for the experience. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) I didn’t want to see his things hanging around the house, while the thought of losing them was unbearable. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) When my selection grew unbearable, I would unplug and just walk around singing my favorite Christmas songs to myself. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) adj incapable of being put up with Syn|Ant intolerable, unendurable impermissible not permitted bittervery difficult to accept or bear impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferableused of persons or their behavior unsupportablenot able to be supported or defended tolerable capable of being borne or endured allowable, permissiblethat may be permitted especially as according to rule bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportablecapable of being borne though unpleasant resistant, tolerantable to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress |
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