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    If something is inestimable, it is too much or too great to be calculated — you cannot put a real number on it. The usual picture is value or importance: help of inestimable value, an inestimable gift. It can also be harm: inestimable damage, inestimable loss. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned word; in everyday talk people say you cannot measure it, or it's beyond counting. Though actually, speakers almost always mean 'huge' rather than 'we literally tried to count and failed.' It praises or stresses size; it is not a shrug that says 'unknown, so never mind.'

    無法估量的；難以估計的（多指極大，不是「估不出所以沒價值」）

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組成From Middle French inestimable, from Latin inaestimābilis: in- (not) + aestimābilis (estimable). Equivalent to in- + estimable.

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  • estimableable to be estimated — and, in older use, worthy of respect
  • estimateto judge size, cost, or value roughly

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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inestimableadj/ɪˈnɛs.tɪ.mə.bəl/

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    Not able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.

    • The Voyager spacecraft explored the solar system and continued into the inestimable space beyond.
    • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
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    Venerable, great.

    • On my arrival hither I found a letter from the inestimable Mr. Wythe, by which he informs me that in consequence of a late act of our general assembly he remains the sole judge of the high court of chancery.

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。