beggar all description
【字面理解】所有描述都显得匮乏
【英文解析】to be too strange and unusual to be believed or described
【中文解析】不可思议;难以置信;难以形容
【典型例句】① The sight of him completely covered with mud and oil beggared all description.他浑身又是泥又是油, 那样子真是难以描述。
② Tim left two windows wide open when he went on holidays. His stupidity beggars all description!蒂姆大开 着两扇窗户就度假去了,他简直愚不可及!
【注释】beggar原指“乞丐”,当用作及物动词时有“抽尽 其资源”的意思。莎士比亚在《安东尼和克娄巴特拉》 (Antony and Cleopatra)中用 beggar all description 这个短语来形容埃及艳后克娄巴特拉:For her own person, it beggar’d all description.(说到她本人,那简 直没有字眼可以形容)。自此之后,这个短语逐渐成 为习语,表示“难以形容非笔墨所能形容”。变体: beggar description; beggar (all) belief。