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单词 unrecognizable
释义
unrecognizableun‧rec‧og‧niz‧a‧ble (also unrecognisable British English) /ʌnˈrekəɡnaɪzəbəl, -ˈrekə-/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Completely shaved and wearing prison clothes, the two sisters were unrecognizable to each other.
  • The explosion left nothing but small, unrecognizable pieces of the aircraft scattered over the field.
  • We've recovered two bodies from the wreckage, but they are unrecognizable.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Completely shaved, in prison clothes, they were unrecognizable to each other.
  • Each time he pointed to something about me, it was as if it fell away from me, foreign and unrecognizable.
  • Finally there was the unrecognizable specialist equipment, acquired for some particular reason or other, but whose purpose was not apparent.
  • He's unrecognizable as the boy we once knew.
  • Ideally, the reading courses of the 1990s will not only look different to today's teachers, they will be unrecognizable.
  • If we were gibbons, our lives would be unrecognizable.
  • The jaws were unrecognizable by this stage, and all the teeth were exposed as isolated teeth.
  • The joy is being unrecognizable from role to role.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatordifficult to recognize
a strange person, voice, smell etc one that is not recognizable because it is different from other, similar things that you know already: · I could hear strange voices outside the room.· It was hard for her, going to live in a strange city where she knew no-one.· Mum, come quick! There's a strange man coming up the path.· Can you check out that strange noise outside?
also unrecognisable British difficult or impossible to recognize: · We've recovered two bodies from the wreckage, but they are unrecognizable.· The explosion left nothing but small, unrecognizable pieces of the aircraft scattered over the field.unrecognizable to: · Completely shaved and wearing prison clothes, the two sisters were unrecognizable to each other.
something that is unfamiliar is not recognizable because you have never seen it, heard it, done it etc before: · She spoke with an unfamiliar accent.· She noticed an unfamiliar truck parked across the street. unfamiliar to: · His name may be unfamiliar to Western audiences.
also out of all recognition if something has changed beyond recognition or out of all recognition , it has changed completely -- use this to emphasize that it is completely different now: · The business has changed beyond recognition since Cyril took over from his father.· The Internet has altered our understanding of the world beyond all recognition.· Susan's playing has improved out of all recognition.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounrecognitionadjectiverecognizableunrecognizableverbrecognizeadverbrecognizably
someone or something that is unrecognizable has changed or been damaged so much that you do not recognize them:  I hadn’t been to the city for 20 years and it was almost unrecognizable.
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