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agonizing

/ag-uh-nahy-zing/US // ˈæg əˌnaɪ zɪŋ //

痛苦的,令人痛苦的,痛苦不堪的,痛苦不堪

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.

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  • Unlike the movies, where the protagonist always has a witty comeback to make a fool out of a bigot or a bully, I had countless agonizing memories of times I wished I would have said or handled things differently.

  • It took the two men 45 agonizing minutes to uncover her face, which was blue and unresponsive.

  • It has forced waiters and bartenders to revert to their agonizing role as public-health enforcers.

  • The chronicles that detail what happened before that date were the result of an agonizing memory exercise like this one.

  • So, of course stretch however it benefits you, but remember that if you are experiencing agonizing pain, it’s far more likely to be doing harm than it is to be doing good.

  • He makes his way, step by agonizing step, his face red and wheezing, his eyes straight ahead.

  • And we all know how long Rick has spent agonizing over how much of his old self to give up in order to stay alive.

  • What followed was an agonizing spectacle that ended when Lockett died at 7.06 p.m.—43 minutes after the drugs began to flow.

  • It catalogues a massive but doomed police investigation through its agonizing near-misses and mistaken hunches.

  • He was too busy riding shotgun on stagecoaches through the Sierras to sit at a desk agonizing over adverbs.

  • It was not until all the boxes and parcels must have arrived in the Condamine, that an agonizing thought struck Hugh.

  • Between agonizing moments, she chatted a little, and said it took her mind off her sufferings.

  • Isabel's brain seemed to eliminate every thought it had ever possessed and hurriedly to remodel down to one agonizing point.

  • He turned and suddenly broke into agonizing sobs and then ran down the steps.

  • He himself was insupportably aware of her, as she sat, doomed and agonizing, in her chair at the head of Brodrick's table.