| 单词 | inscrutable |
| 释义 | inscrutable (once / 1732 pages) adj Any person or thing that's mysterious, mystifying, hard to read, or impossible to interpret is inscrutable. You ever notice how it's hard to tell what some people are thinking? Those folks are inscrutable. A good way to think about what inscrutable means is to consider cats and dogs. Dogs wear their hearts on their sleeves, shaking when they're afraid and bouncing up and down when they're happy. Dogs are definitely not inscrutable, because you can tell what they're thinking and feeling. On the other hand, cats are very difficult to read. Even longtime cat owners aren't always sure what's going on with their kitty. Cats are very inscrutable animals. WORD FAMILYinscrutable: inscrutability, inscrutably+/inscrutability: inscrutabilities USAGE EXAMPLESThese are systems patterned after the way the human brain works but which, ironically, are almost entirely inscrutable to humans. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Master Yoda’s aphorisms up against an inscrutable textbook is a battle that may end in a tie. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) The island is beautiful but oblique, sublime yet functionally inscrutable. Time(Dec 19, 2016) adj of an obscure nature the inscrutable workings of Providence Syn cryptic, cryptical, deep, mysterious, mystifying incomprehensible, inexplicable incapable of being explained or accounted for |
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