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hair-raising

/hair-rey-zing/US // ˈhɛərˌreɪ zɪŋ //

惊心动魄,惊心动魄的,令人毛骨悚然,令人毛骨悚然的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.

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Examples

  • The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

  • Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

  • But his fingers moved through her silky strands of hair, and then down her neck.

  • The band turned back around, raising a lively tune to signal life would go on.

  • There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.

  • I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.

  • He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

  • He stood before the glass hung above the wash bench and 369 smoothed his hair.