词汇 | unimaginable |
释义 | unimaginable adjective uk /ˌʌn.ɪˈmædʒ.ɪ.nə.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.ɪˈmædʒ.ɪ.nə.bəl/ C2 Something that is unimaginable is difficult to imagine because it is so bad, good, big, etc.: 难以想象的 unimaginable pain/wealth难以想象的痛苦/财富 Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught frightful from hellidiom fun ghastliness not be all fun and gamesidiom noxiously objectionable objectionably odious unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable Related wordunimaginably unimaginable | American Dictionaryunimaginable adjective us/ˌʌn·ɪˈmædʒ·ə·nə·bəl/ difficult to imagine, esp. because of being very unlikely or very undesirable: It was a time of drought and despair, of the Dust Bowl, of unimaginable suffering. Examples of unimaginableunimaginable In the process, an international "brand pidgin" may be emerging as discourses and brands have become enmeshed to a previously unimaginable degree. Civilian governments arguably more consolidated than at any time in history, have been able to move the security agenda forward in many ways previously unimaginable. Concurrently, equipment became popularised and miniaturised by degrees truly unimaginable. Lab experiments became the means by which heretofore unimaginable market designs could be performance tested. At this intersection, rather, new worlds are being imagined as old ones are being rendered unimaginable, or at least obsolete. This kind of bald-on-record advice to a prospect is unimaginable in an ordinary sales talk. In this account, women like her were neither innocent nor victims, forced by extreme hardship into otherwise unimaginable measures. The idea of a vacuum devoid of physical matter was unimaginable. On the other hand, cutbacks were accompanied by reforms that would have been unimaginable a few years earlier. Special search software allows editors to analyse material in ways that were unimaginable even twenty years ago. It can challenge everyday activities in ways that would have seemed unimaginable a decade earlier. The theme was what survives after unimaginable loss, and the value of what remains after the passage of time. At a distance too from that literally unimaginable space-time which exists before narration. First, consider two narrow, but not unimaginable, senses of the expression. It has been a long day of explaining the inexplicable and the unimaginable to blank eyes in smiling faces. 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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