| 词汇 | unthinkable |
| 释义 | unthinkable adjective uk /ʌnˈθɪŋ.kə.bəl/ us /ʌnˈθɪŋ.kə.bəl/ C1 so shocking that it cannot be imagined as possible: 难以想象的，不可思议的 Today, we see growing acceptance of gay marriage - something that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.今天我们对同性婚姻的接受程度越来越高，在上一代的时候这是难以想象的事。 not able to happen, exist, or be true impossibleYou can't be at my party and at work at the same time – it's impossible! be out of the questionGoing on holiday under these circumstances is out of the question. no wayThere is absolutely no way your mother will allow that. inconceivableIt's inconceivable that the president didn't know about the military attack. unthinkableA wide-scale nuclear attack is unthinkable. Not believable (that's) a likely story!idiom belief by no stretch (of the imagination)idiom fanciful fancifully far-fetched I must be hearing thingsidiom implausibility implausible implausibly incredible joke stretch too good to be trueidiom unbelievable unbelievably unconvincing wash weak you're joking!idiom the unthinkableidiom an unthinkable event or situation: 难以想象的事件（或局面） The unthinkable had happened - his secret activities had been discovered by the press.难以想象的事发生了——他的秘密活动被新闻界发现了。 Not believable (that's) a likely story!idiom belief by no stretch (of the imagination)idiom fanciful fancifully far-fetched I must be hearing thingsidiom implausibility implausible implausibly incredible joke stretch too good to be trueidiom unbelievable unbelievably unconvincing wash weak you're joking!idiom unthinkable | American Dictionaryunthinkable adjective us/ʌnˈθɪŋ·kə·bəl/ too shocking or unlikely to be imagined as possible: A world without music would be unthinkable. the unthinkableidiom something that is very unlikely or undesirable: The president’s car did the unthinkable – it stopped at a red light. Examples of unthinkableunthinkable In fact, in the 1960s open criticism of the leading defenders of 'the law of development' became almost unthinkable. There was even a television-broadcast debate on this controversy,19 which previously would have been unthinkable. He looked at me in surprise ; to him it was unthinkable that someone would not believe. The odd hexagon or octagon extends the principle further, but departure from the technical method is unthinkable. Canons require their own others, texts that are both within and without, to think the unthinkable within their disputed domains. Such an alternative vision was made unthinkable through the obliteration of certain evocative places. If tolerance of established race and gender inequalities is considered to be wholly unacceptable, any policy which further institutionalises such practices must surely be unthinkable. They both came to inspire apparent fantasies of immortality in their subjects, who found it simultaneously exhilarating and unthinkable to imagine living without them. Were this not a fundamental assumption, the idea that a leitmotif recurs for musical-formal reasons in defiance of text would be unthinkable. In other countries too, such parties have made inroads unthinkable not long ago. Leaders have been known to make an art of ' 'thinking the unthinkable' '. If chiefly aggrandizement was unthinkable, so was chiefly accountability : a chief could hardly be held personally accountable for property which belonged to the stool. What had previously been unthinkable suddenly became feasible. The emerging rail system made travel possible with a speed unthinkable in earlier times. By the time of his death it filled over a thousand pages ; publication had long been unthinkable. See all examples of unthinkable 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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