- 1aB2
/ʌnˈberəbəl/ · /ʌnˈbeərəbəl/
So unpleasant, painful, or that you cannot deal with it or live with it any longer.
難以忍受的
比較級 more unbearable最高級 most unbearable
核心畫面
Something is loaded onto you — pain, noise, heat, a situation — and you carry it, and carry it, until the weight goes past what you can hold. Not "heavy"; past the line. The word marks the point where carrying stops being possible.
有個東西壓在你身上——痛、噪音、悶熱、某個處境——你扛著、扛著，直到重量超過你撐得住的界線。這個字說的不是「很重」，…更多收起
有個東西壓在你身上——痛、噪音、悶熱、某個處境——你扛著、扛著，直到重量超過你撐得住的界線。這個字說的不是「很重」，而是「超過那條線了」。bear 本來就是「承受、扛著」，前面加 un- 是「做不到」，後面 -able 是「有沒有辦法」，合起來就是：這東西你已經沒辦法再扛下去。所以它帶的不是程度，而是一個臨界點——再一秒都不行了。原始詞典資料1 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。
unbearableadj
- 1
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
- The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
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。