| 英语单词 | harrowing |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['hærəʊɪŋ] 美 ['hæroʊɪŋ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.悲痛的;难受的 动词harrow的现在分词形式. |
| 英语例句 | (1) This ground harrows well. (2) The shipwreck was a harrowing experience. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这块地很好耙。 (2) 那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Being attacked by a hungry shark or being chased by an unruly mob on the streets can be described as harrowing, which means "provoking feelings of fear or horror." |
| vocabulary扩展 | The adjective harrowing is often used to describe a firsthand experience that is terrifying, such as a harrowing drive home in icy weather, but it can also refer to a secondhand experience, such as reading or watching something that is very frightening or disturbing. If you read someone’s account of being shipwrecked in Antarctica, you might describe that as a harrowing story. A harrowing experience typically unfolds over a period of time. For example, if you bump into a shark while swimming, that’s merely scary. If the shark attacks you, then it becomes a harrowing ordeal. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]折磨人的;烦人的;令人无比痛苦的 A harrowing experience is extremely upsetting or disturbing. [usu ADJ n]
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