Dictionary entry
uncomprehensible
adjective
难以理解的
difficult to understand
- 1.
difficult to understand; - A. Einstein
In use
The professor's explanation was completely uncomprehensible to the first-year students.
She found the technical manual uncomprehensible without a glossary.
The ancient dialect in the poem made it uncomprehensible to modern readers.
be uncomprehensible to sb
The theory is uncomprehensible to me.
这个理论对我来说难以理解。
find sth uncomprehensible
I find his explanation uncomprehensible.
我觉得他的解释难以理解。
remain uncomprehensible
The motive remains uncomprehensible.
动机仍然难以理解。
Common mistakes
The concept is uncomprehensible for me.The concept is uncomprehensible to me.
在英语中，形容词 'uncomprehensible' 后接介词 'to' 表示对某人来说难以理解，而不是 'for'。这是受到中文表达‘对...来说’的常见影响，但英语固定搭配使用 'to'。
The uncomprehensible of the situation made it hard to address.The uncomprehensibility of the situation made it hard to address.
'uncomprehensible' 是形容词，不能直接用作名词。需要改为名词形式 'uncomprehensibility'（难以理解性）或重新组织句子如 'The fact that the situation was uncomprehensible made it hard to address.'
Connections
Confusing words
- incomprehensible
- 难以理解的 · 拼写差异：incomprehensible是标准拼写，uncomprehensible是非标准变体。
Word family
- comprehend
- 理解 · verb
- comprehension
- 理解力 · noun
- comprehensible
- 可理解的 · adjective
- incomprehensible
- 难以理解的 · adjective
- comprehensibility
- 可理解性 · noun
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WORDNET.