- (especially of a person's expression)
impossible to understand or interpret 难以捉摸的;难以理解的;神秘莫测的 He was wearing that inscrutable look again. 他又流露出那种难以捉摸的表情。 Her face had become inscrutable. 她的脸变得难以理解。 - inscrutable to somebody
Unfortunately, this language is largely inscrutable to non-specialists. 不幸的是,这种语言对非专业人士来说很难理解。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInscrutable is used with these nouns:- expression
Word Originlate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin inscrutabilis, from in- ‘not’ + scrutari ‘to search’ (originally ‘sort rubbish’, from scruta ‘rubbish’).