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粵語辭叢

不堪設想

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粵典 (words.hk)Hong KongWord

形容某情況太恐怖,令人唔敢想像。 (used to describe a situation which is too fearful to contemplate or imagine)

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後果不堪設想

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The consequences are too awful to contemplate.

維基辭典YuePhrase

Original phonetic: /pɐt̚⁵ hɐm⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːt̚³ sœːŋ³⁵/

too dreadful to contemplate; too horrible to imagine

Examples

後果不堪設想。

The consequences will be disastrous.

例如眼前國民黨反動派被我們所推翻,過去日本帝國主義被我們和各國人民所推翻,對於被推翻者來說,這是痛苦的,不堪設想的。

To be overthrown is painful and is unbearable to contemplate for those overthrown, for example, for the Kuomintang reactionaries whom we are now overthrowing and for Japanese imperialism which we together with other peoples overthrew some time ago.