invisible

1. ADJ If you describe something as invisible, you mean that it cannot be seen, for example, because it is transparent, hidden, or very small. 看不見的

The lines were so finely etched as to be invisible from a distance. 這些線條蝕刻得如此精細，離遠點都看不出來。

2. invisiblyADV 看不見地[ADV with v]

A thin coil of smoke rose almost invisibly into the sharp, bright sky. 一縷輕煙幾乎不見蹤跡地升上了耀眼的晴空。

3. ADJ You can use invisible when you are talking about something that cannot be seen but has a definite effect. In this sense, invisible is often used before a noun that refers to something visible. 無形的[ADJ n]

All the time you are in doubt about the cause of your illness, you are fighting against an invisible enemy. 一直以來你都在懷疑自己的病因，你是在和一個無形的敵人斗爭。

4. invisiblyADV 無形地[ADV with v]

...the tradition that invisibly shapes things in the present. …這種無形地影響著現(xiàn)有事物的傳統(tǒng)。

5. ADJ If you say that you feel invisible, you are complaining that you are being ignored by other people. If you say that a particular problem or situation is invisible, you are complaining that it is not being considered or dealt with. 被忽視的

It was strange, how invisible a clerk could feel. 很奇怪一名職員會感到如此地受人忽視。

6. invisibilityN-UNCOUNT 被忽視

She takes up the issue of the invisibility of women and women's concerns in society. 她著手處理社會上對婦女及其所關注的事物的忽視問題。

7. ADJ In stories, invisible people or things have a magic quality that makes people unable to see them. 隱身的

...The Invisible Man. …《隱身人》。

8. ADJ In economics, invisible earnings are the money that a country makes as a result of services such as banking and tourism, rather than by producing goods. 非貿易性的[商業(yè)] [ADJ n]

The revenue from tourism is the biggest single item in the country's invisible earnings. 旅游收入是該國非貿易性收益中最大的單項收入。