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Inscrutability is the quality of being impossible to read. When someone's face does not move — no pleasure, anger, or doubt showing — that stillness is their inscrutability: you cannot tell what they feel or think. Writers also stretch it a little to a smile, a look, or even a plan whose meaning will not come out. It is a formal, noun. In speech people are more likely to say I cannot read him than to name his inscrutability.
高深莫測;喜怒不形於色(看不出心思的特質)
組成inscrutable + -ity (the quality of being inscrutable).
同家族的字
- inscrutablethe adjective this noun names the quality of
- scrutinyshares Latin scrūtō / scrutari, to examine closely
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。
inscrutabilitynoun
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The condition of being inscrutable
- What about Mrs. Cavendish? I watched her as she sat at the head of the table, graceful, composed, enigmatic. In her soft grey frock, with white ruffles at the wrists falling over her slender hands, she looked very beautiful. When she chose, however, her face could be sphinx-like in its inscrutability.
- The inscrutability of all this was the kind of inscrutability you have when you suddenly enter a room where a furious argument has just ended. Everyone is quiet. No one is talking.
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Something that is inscrutable.
- the inscrutabilities of advanced mathematics
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。