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Ineffably means in a way that is too great, too beautiful, or too deep to put into words. You use it to dress a feeling or a quality: someone is ineffably kind, a place is ineffably sad, a moment is ineffably strange. It is the adverb of ineffable, and it has the same literary, slightly old-fashioned colour. You will not hear it much in the street; it belongs to careful writing and to people who like a high, soft tone. Though actually, some speakers use it just as a fancy 'very' or 'amazingly', which is a looser, lighter use than the old religious and poetic one.
難以言喻地
組成ineffable + -ly (makes an adverb).
同家族的字
- ineffablethe adjective this adverb is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ineffablyadv
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indescribably; to a very great degree or extent.
- His songs are ineffably sweet and touching.
- "And," said Crabbe, "I know exactly how much brandy's in that cupboard. And whisky." The Chinese smiled ineffably.
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unmentionably; unspeakably
- This is the Name which is most ineffably holy.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。