- 1aB2/ʌnˈberəbəl/ · /ʌnˈbeərəbəl/難以忍受的
So unpleasant, painful, or that you cannot deal with it or live with it any longer.
示範例句 · Example
The heat in the tent was almost unbearable by noon.
逐字到了中午，帳篷裡的熱幾乎是難以忍受的。
unbearable = un- + bear + -able，這裡的 bear 就是「扛」，所以 bearable 可以想成「扛得住」，unbearable 就像「重到扛不住」。範圍很寬：痛（unbearable pain）、熱、吵到不行的噪音、緊張的氣氛（unbearable tension），甚至一整段難熬的日子都能用。要注意誰扛不住：英文說那件事是 unbearable，說自己則用 I can't bear it。
常見搭配
almost unbearable
幾乎受不了
so bad that you can only just deal with it
The pain in his arm was almost unbearable.
unbearable pain
難以忍受的疼痛
pain that is too strong for someone to deal with
The medicine slowly took away the unbearable pain in her back.
unbearable tension
難以忍受的緊張
a feeling of worry so strong that it is hard to sit through
The tension was almost unbearable by the last round of the quiz.
make life unbearable for someone
讓某人的日子很難熬
to make someone's daily life very hard to put up with
The endless noise from the road was making life unbearable for the neighbours.
become unbearable
變得難以忍受
to reach the point where you can no longer deal with it
By August the heat in the old classroom became unbearable.
core核心畫面
Something is loaded onto you — pain, noise, heat, a situation — and you carry it, and carry it, until the weight goes past what you can hold. Not "heavy"; past the line. The word marks the point where carrying stops being possible.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unbearableadj
- 1
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
- The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
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