词汇 | inscrutable |
释义 | inscrutable adjective uk /ɪnˈskruː.tə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈskruː.t̬ə.bəl/ not showing emotions or thoughts and therefore very difficult to understand or get to know: (尤指人或其表情)高深莫测的,不可测知的 an inscrutable face/expression/smile神秘莫测的面孔/表情/笑容 Synonyms cryptic mysterious Not showing or feeling emotions anodyne anti-sentimental belie bite bite your lipidiom frozenly glaze hard-bitten hardened icily poker face reserved reservedly sphinx-like stiff upper lip unmoved unprocessed unresponsive unresponsively unresponsiveness Related wordsinscrutably inscrutability inscrutable | American Dictionaryinscrutable adjective us/ɪnˈskru·t̬ə·bəl/ very difficult to understand or get to know: an inscrutable smile He believes that a certain portion of life must remain inscrutable. Examples of inscrutableinscrutable In fact, all of the children's faces have grown less distinct and more inscrutable from the warehouse scene. These writers know that marginalization is the result of being considered inscrutable or untranslatable. Conversely, when good reasons cannot be found for why someone acted as they did, their behavior remains inscrutable. Even if the idea of incarnation makes sense, the incarnation relation is perceptually inscrutable. It follows, therefore, that many of the sound fragments in a mix may present themselves to the listener as inscrutable sound bites. It will satisfy their questions and probably kindle an interest in a game they may otherwise have written off as inscrutable. Many within the economics profession have likewise found his program inscrutable, because they insist on trying to frame it in their own local terms. Why is it necessary, and how it is possible, to validate belief in supernatural agent concepts that are logically and factually inscrutable? Perhaps so inscrutable, we are powerless to decode it. In the face of historical scrutiny the castrato will always remain somehow inscrutable, a figure enshrouded in mystery. In this 'mix' configuration, foreign and indigenous sounds sometimes present themselves as inscrutable sound bites - snippets detached from their original musical and cultural contexts. The production, which included sculpture, video projections, dancers and quite a lot of sand, was striking but like the libretto, ultimately inscrutable. Yet those narrative elements can be arranged in such a way as to be inscrutable, enigmatic or even nonsensical. Nearly every foreigner that dealt with him found him inscrutable if sometimes charming in his own way. I doubt there is - or more to the point in these historical articles, was - anything more inscrutable or strange about the male than the female voice except in particular instances. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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