(1) 两者稍有差别,unmeasurable意为“因太大或太小不能测量、衡量的”,用于特大或特小的事物。
- The satellite is slowing down at an almost unmeasurable speed.
这颗人造卫星正以几乎测量不出的速率减速。 - The difference between the two things is so small that it is almost unmeasurable .
这两件东西的差别是如此之小,几乎无法衡量。
(2) immeasurable指“(由于太大、太重要、太多等原因而)不能衡量的、无法估量的、无限的”。
- Immeasurable quantities of natural resources have been lost for ever because of human misuse.
由于人类的滥用,无数自然资源永远失去了。 - Distances in an infinite universe would be literally immeasurable .
在无限的宇宙中,距离简直是无法衡量的。