unimaginable

英 [ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnəbl]

美 [ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnəbl]

adj.  难以置信的; 不可想象的

TOEFL

Collins.1 / BNC.18623 / COCA.12047

牛津词典

adj.

• 难以置信的；不可想象的
  impossible to think of or to believe exists; impossible to imagine
  1. unimaginable wealth
     难以想象的财富
  2. This level of success would have been unimaginable just last year.
     取得这样的成就，这在仅仅一年前都是不敢想象的。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不可想象的；难以理解的；异乎寻常的
  If you describe something asunimaginable, you are emphasizing that it is difficult to imagine or understand properly, because it is not part of people's normal experience.
  1. The scale of the fighting is almost unimaginable...
     战斗的规模几乎无法想象。
  2. The children here have lived through unimaginable horrors.
     这里的孩子经历了难以想象的恐惧。

英英释义

adj

• totally unlikely
  Synonym:impossibleinconceivableout of the question

双语例句

• Not long ago, marriage for same-sex couples was unimaginable, he said.
  他说：就在不久之前，同性婚姻还是不可想象的。
• In one 96-hour period, we saw three nearly unimaginable events.
  在96个小时的时间里，我们目睹了3起无法想象的事件。
• We all believed it unimaginable that he had lived alone on a deserted island for so long.
  我们都觉得他在渺无人迹的荒岛上住这么久是不可想象的。
• It is unimaginable ( incredible/ unbelievable) that such a boy of17 should have had three novels published.
  难以想象的是/难以置信的是，一个17岁的孩子已经出版了三本小说。
• Some of these headline-grabbing transactions would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
  仅在几年前，一些令人瞩目的交易几乎是不可想象的。
• Recent years, Internet had a high development in and unimaginable pace.
  近年来，互联网以一种不可想象的速度向前发展。
• Wealth is for most people a prospect of unimaginable felicity.
  对大多数人来说，财富是一种对无法想象的幸福的期望。
• The consequences could be dreadful to contemplate, quite unimaginable in fact.
  所引起的后果是致命的以及复杂的，事实上不可想象。
• A world without it seems unimaginable, but consider the fate of other online communities.
  世界没了维基百科似乎无法想象，但想想其他在线社区的命运吧。
• I clearly explained that life after a polar reversal is nothing but horror, pure unimaginable horror.
  我清楚地解释说，生活在极地逆转，不过是恐怖片，纯难以想象的恐怖。