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imponderable

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++im·pon·der·a·ble /ɪmˈpɒndərəbəl $ -ˈpɑːn-/ noun [countable usually plural] formal  JUDGEsomething that cannot be exactly measured, judged, or calculated 无法精确估量的事物;难以判断的事物 There are too many imponderables to make an accurate prediction. 有太多无法判断的因素,因此很难作出准确的预测。imponderable adjective an imponderable question 难以判断的问题
Examples from the Corpus
imponderableHow all this underaged precocity impacts his initial take-home is an imponderable.The greatest imponderable may be the personal impact the humiliation of the ethics case has brought.In spite of a host of imponderables it is possible to speculate on the composition of some of the smaller properties.Whether it translates into practice depends on a number of imponderables.There are still some imponderables in this situation, starting with the Coliseum itself.In addition to the daily little worries, these were the sweeping imponderables that held their attention.That's another of the imponderables, of course.The Sandys doctrine was a crystallization of the imponderables of the early years of the nuclear era.
im·pon·der·a·ble nounChineseSyllable
that something Corpus cannot judged, be measured, exactly or


imponderable
imponderable /ɪmˈpɒndərəbəl $ -ˈpɑːn-/ noun [countable usually plural] formal
something that cannot be exactly measured, judged, or calculated:
    There are too many imponderables to make an accurate prediction.
—imponderable adjective:
    an imponderable question


im·pon·der·ableBrE /ɪmˈpɒndərəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ɪmˈpɑːndərəbl/ 🔊 noun [usually plural] (formal) something that is difficult to measure or estimate 难以衡量(或估量)的事物We can't predict the outcome. There are too many imponderables. 我们无法预测结果。难以逆料的情况太多了。🔊🔊 im·pon·der·able adjective