| 释义 |
indecipherable, a.|ɪndɪˈsaɪfərəb(ə)l|
[in-3.]
Incapable of being deciphered or made out.
1802T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) III. 491 A cipher..which..is the most indecipherable..of any I have ever known. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. iii. §35. 50 Nor are the original features of the rest of the edifice altogether indecipherable. 1886A. Evans in Archæol. XLIX. 143 A few words were indecipherable.
Hence indeˌcipheraˈbility, indeˈcipherableness.
1806W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 127 The indecypherableness of the story. 1894Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 8/2 Downright indecipherability [of handwriting]. |