| 英语单词 | crushing |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['krʌʃɪŋ] 美 ['krʌʃɪŋ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.压倒的;决定性的;支离破碎的;毁灭性的 动词crush的现在分词形式. |
| 英语例句 | (1) It's a crushing blow for the president's foreign policy. (2) The linesman's error on my disallowed goal was incredibly crushing. (3) The crushing process is carried out by pressure and shearing stress. (4) The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 对总统的外交政策是沉重的打击。 (2) 边裁对于我那个越位进球的错误判罚使之拥有难以置信的决定性。 (3) 在相应的压力和切力作用下,物料得以破碎。 (4) 偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Something that's crushing is terribly upsetting or overwhelming. Your favorite team's crushing loss to its rival comes as a huge, disappointing surprise. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The adjective crushing can be used to describe physical devastation, like a boxer's crushing blow to his opponent's face, but it more often describes a humiliating or dismaying situation. Bad news might be a crushing blow, and being turned down for a date to the prom could feel like a crushing rejection. Crushing comes from the Old French cruissir, a variation on croissir, "to gnash, crash, or break." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]惨重的;毁灭性的;严重的 A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one. [ADJ n] [emphasis]
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