something beggars description 指某物分外美丽、与众不同，难以用言语去形容。如：
- His courage beggars description.
他的胆量无法用语言来形容。 - His conduct is so bad it beggars description.
他的品行之坏不可名状。
这一表达出自莎士比亚的戏剧《安东尼和克莉奥帕格拉》（Antony and Cleopatra）第2 幕第2场中安东尼的朋友伊诺巴柏斯（Enobarbus）之口：
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description ...
让我告诉们。她坐的那艘画舫就像一尊
在水上燃烧的发光的宝座；舵楼是用黄金打成的；
帆是紫色的，熏染着异香，
逗引得风儿也为它们害起相思来了；桨是白银的，
随着笛声的节奏在水面上下，
使那被它们击动的痴心的水波加快了速度追随不舍。
讲到她自己，
那简直没有字眼可以形容……
