| 英语单词 | incomprehensible |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪnˌkɒmprɪ'hensəbl] 美 [ɪnˌkɑːmprɪ'hensəbl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.不能理解的;费解的;<古>无限的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The whole thing was incomprehensible. (2) He speaks an incomprehensible vernacular. (3) She grunted some incomprehensible reply. (4) It is incomprehensible that they were admitted to the program. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 整件事情都是让人无法理解的。 (2) 他说的是一种无法听得懂的方言。 (3) 她咕噜着回答了些令人费解的话。 (4) 他们竟也获准参与这个项目,真是不可思议。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If your poetry is incomprehensible, it's difficult to understand, and it might be impossible to explain. Could be you're a genius! Could be you're just not very good at poetry. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Incomprehensible originates from the Latin incomprehensibilis: in- ("not") and comprehensibilis ("perceptible, evident, intelligible"). Many unfamiliar customs or rituals seem incomprehensible from a distance, for example, the early Chinese practice of foot binding, in which girls tightly bandaged their feet to prevent them from getting bigger. Similarly, future generations may find today's Western high-heeled shoes incomprehensible, leading them to ask, "What in the world were they thinking?!" |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]不能理解的;晦涩难懂的;费解的 Something that is incomprehensible is impossible to understand.
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