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chilling

/chil-ing/US // ˈtʃɪl ɪŋ //

令人心寒的,令人心寒,让人心寒的,寒冷的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing or likely to cause a chill: the chilling effect of the high unemployment rate.

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Examples

  • He also played a chilling video of House members instructing one another to take off their identifying lapel pins.

  • It’s a chilling, truly absorbing film with big implications for the future.

  • When that’s what gets her fired, it’s a pretty chilling message to send to your employees.

  • As the world watched rioters take over the US Capitol on January 6, the lack of security was chilling.

  • “The government now wants a do-over, sending a chilling warning to American business that no sale is ever final,” she said.

  • But the simultaneously gripping and chilling hold of Serial is that its characters are real people.

  • The result can be the indifference that appears so chilling in the Garner video.

  • Another chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote.

  • Neither, too, was as chilling, as affecting, or, at times, as much of a slog.

  • Imagine the chilling effect this would have on senators thinking about sticking around for a fourth term and beyond.

  • The night wind sweeps across the cheerless park, chilling us to the bone.

  • There is something cold and chilling in the supports which pride and philosophy alone can afford under the calamities of life.

  • There was a bone-chilling breeze off the Drive that made Lamb belt his coat tighter about him.

  • I didn't dare think what kind of soul-chilling tones might emerge from its ancient depths.

  • But note the shudder in the third line when the accent is changed on the word “chilling.”