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Incredible Incredibly Hard Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 I Adj People

英语单词 incredible
英美音标 英 [ɪn'kredəbl] 美 [ɪn'kredəbl]
中文释义 adj.难以置信的;惊人的
英语例句 (1) I think it's incredible.
(2) That's the most incredible coincidence I've ever heard of!
(3) He showed an incredible indifference to the matter.
(4) He has an incredible house!
中文例句 (1) 我认为这是难以置信的。
(2) 那是我听说过的最难以置信的巧合!
(3) 他对这件事表现出令人难以置信的淡漠。
(4) 他有一所极美的房子!
vocabulary简明 If it's hard to believe and hard to wrap your head around, it just might be incredible. A hurricane in Kansas would certainly be incredible, but keeping your bedroom tidy all week counts too.
vocabulary扩展 Incredible is commonplace and perhaps overused but it still fits the bill whenever life is beyond expectation. The Latin root credere means believe. Slap an in in front of that root, and something incredible is hard to believe.
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]妙极的;惹人喜爱的;了不起的 If you describe something or someone as incredible, you like them very much or are impressed by them, because they are extremely or unusually good.
  [approval]
  • The wildflowers will be incredible after this rain...

    这场雨过后,野花会变得美不胜收。

  • Thanks for taking me, I had an incredible time...

    谢谢你带我去,我玩得非常开心。

  • You're always an incredible help on these cases.

    在这些事情上你一直是个难得的好帮手。

incredibly
  • Their father was incredibly good-looking.

    他们的父亲十分英俊。

2
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]不可思议的;难以置信的 If you say that something is incredible, you mean that it is very unusual or surprising, and you cannot believe it is really true, although it may be.
  [oft it v-link ADJ that]
  • It seemed incredible that people would still want to play football during a war...

    在战时人们仍然想踢足球,这似乎不可思议。

  • We should not dismiss as lies the incredible stories that children may tell us.

    我们不应把孩子们告诉我们的一些不可思议的故事当成谎话而不予理睬。

incredibly
  • Incredibly, some people don't like the name.

    不可思议的是,有些人不喜欢这个名字。

3
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]惊人的 You use incredible to emphasize the degree, amount, or intensity of something.
  [usu ADJ n]
  [emphasis]
  • We import an incredible amount of cheese from the Continent...

    我们从欧洲大陆进口数量惊人的奶酪。

  • There was an incredible din...

    声音异常嘈杂。

  • It's incredible how much Francesca wants her father's approval...

    你想象不到弗朗西丝卡多么希望得到父亲的同意。

  • His panic was incredible.

    他惊恐万分。

incredibly
  • It was incredibly hard work.

    那是个极其艰苦的工作。

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