inenubilable
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌɪnɪˈnjuːbɪləb(ə)l/
美 /ˌɪnɪˈnjubɪləbəl/|/-nu-/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Incapable of being cleared of clouds.
— As blue and gray go the clouds / Round and about, turning forever / Upon this focus which is the ineluctable you / This minute, this hour, this day, this afternoon that is forever, / Under this never inenubilable sky.
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Inexplicable, mysterious, unclear.
— They go, but are overwhelmed by an avalanche, while the wife and the huntsman escape unharmed. This business of the avalanche is treated by the critics as something quite inenubilable. Yet what could be plainer than [Henrik] Ibsen's meaning?
词源
From English in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + Latin ēnūbilāre (“to clear of clouds or mist; (figurative) to clear of obscurity”) + English -able (suffix meaning ‘able to be done’ forming adjectives), possibly coined by the English critic and essayist Max Beerbohm (1872–1956): see the 1903 and 1911 quotations below. By surface analysis, in- + e- + Latin nubil- + -able.
Ēnūbilāre is derived from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix denoting privation)) + nūbilus (“cloudy, overcast; (figurative) beclouded, confused, troubled”) (from nūbēs (“cloud; (figurative) concealment, obscurity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”)) + -āre.
Ēnūbilāre is derived from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix denoting privation)) + nūbilus (“cloudy, overcast; (figurative) beclouded, confused, troubled”) (from nūbēs (“cloud; (figurative) concealment, obscurity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”)) + -āre.
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