2012_06_14 Imponderable , 無法估量的cannot precisely determined or measured.

Word of the Day for Thursday, June 14, 2012
imponderable \im-PON-der-uh-buhl\, noun:m
1. A thing that cannot be precisely determined or measured.
adjective:
1. Not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
Of course he had always been a huge imponderable, if not to say the biggest challenge of her admittedly young life.
 -- Lindsay Armstrong, The Constantin Marriage
Of course there's always the imponderable, the unpredictable which can't be foreseen...
 -- Leonardo Sciascia, Peter Robb and Sacha Rabinovitch, The Moro Affair
Imponderable comes directly from the Medieval Latin word imponderābilis which had the same meaning.
無法估量的\ IM-PON的DER-UH-布爾\，名詞：

1。的事情，不能準確地確定或衡量。

形容詞：
1。不ponderable;不能準確地確定，測量，或評估。

當然，他始終是一個巨大的無法估量的，如果不說，她承認年輕的生命面臨的最大挑戰。
- 林賽·阿姆斯特朗，康斯坦丁婚姻

當然，總是有無法估量的，不可預見的不可預知的...
- 萊昂納多夏夏，彼得·羅布和薩沙·拉賓諾維奇，摩洛事理

無法估量的直接來自於中世紀拉丁字imponderābilis有相同的含義。

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