| 英语单词 | unbearable |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ʌn'beərəbl] 美 [ʌn'berəbl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.无法忍受的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The uncertainty is unbearable! (2) The politician found the piteous cries of the starving children unbearable. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 事情定不下来真让人难以忍受! (2) 这个政治家发现饥饿的孩子们可怜的哭声让人不忍心听下去。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When something's unbearable, you just can't take it. Your neighbor's loud music was always annoying, but when the walls shook until your favorite vase fell and broke you knew it had become unbearable. |
| vocabulary扩展 | If you look at the adjective unbearable and strip away the prefix un- and the suffix -able, you have the word bear, meaning "to endure." Now put back those add-ons and you end up with a word that means "not able to endure." In other words, you can't stand it. You thought that your job as a police officer was tough until you volunteered to umpire a little league ballgame — the pressure was unbearable! |
| 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]不堪忍受的;无法容忍的;难以承受的 If you describe something as unbearable, you mean that it is so unpleasant, painful, or upsetting that you feel unable to accept it or deal with it.
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