indefinable

英 [ˌɪndɪˈfaɪnəbl]

美 [ˌɪndɪˈfaɪnəbl]

adj.  难以定义的; 无法解释的

复数：indefinables　

TEM8

BNC.21190 / COCA.26368

牛津词典

adj.

• 难以定义的；无法解释的
  difficult or impossible to define or explain
  1. She has that indefinable something that makes an actress a star.
     她具备了那种使演员成为明星的说不出的特质。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 难以确切表达的;难以确定的;模糊不清的
  Anindefinablequality or feeling cannot easily be described.
  1. There was something indefinable in her eyes...
     她的眼神里有种难以确定的东西。
  2. His head felt lighter in some indefinable way.
     他的头不知为何有点晕眩。

英英释义

adj

• not capable of being precisely or readily described
  1. an indefinable feeling of terror
  2. an abstract concept that seems indefinable
  Synonym:undefinable
• defying expression or description
  1. indefinable yearnings
  2. indescribable beauty
  3. ineffable ecstasy
  4. inexpressible anguish
  5. unspeakable happiness
  6. unutterable contempt
  7. a thing of untellable splendor
  Synonym:indescribableineffableunspeakableuntellableunutterable

双语例句

• These words were uttered with an indefinable sound which startled the girl.
  这些话的口气有些暧昧，它使姑娘吃了一惊。
• What film can do as well as any essay is to convey indefinable foreboding, the feeling that something is somehow wrong.
  与任何小品文一样，电影所能做的是传达一种莫名的预感，一种有什么地方似乎不对劲的感觉。
• A sign that they are losing the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves know not of.
  这说明他们已失去了那种自惭多罪的感受，并感到自己已在某些思想家和空想者中间受到一种说不上是什么的不自觉的支持。
• And in passing leaves an indefinable longing and regret.
  并在消逝中给人留下了不可名状的渴望和惆怅。
• There's an indefinable air of tension in this town.
  这城镇里有种难以描述的紧张气氛。
• The boundary is not clearly defined. This borderline is indefinable. definite but not specified or identified.
  有明确的界限但没有确定、识别。
• The author intended to create text full of sensorial stimulus, to demonstrate the indefinable movements of characters, like the reactions of plants evoked from the forces of Nature.
  第一章探讨《向性》一书里，作者透过文章结构、词汇布置出一个充满刺激物的文字空间启动人类的五种感官，进而观察人物微妙的心理活动转化。
• Both bore languidly the indefinable burden of immaterial pleasures.
  他俩昏昏沉沉地承受着这种非物质的快感的无限重压。
• All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does not see the person.
  她忽然有一种说不出的感觉：在自己背后立着一个人，即使不看，也能感到。
• The indefinable pleasures that a bookshop supplies.
  书店给人的难以言喻的乐趣。