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harrowing

/har-oh-ing/US // ˈhær oʊ ɪŋ //

惨不忍睹,惨不忍睹的,令人震惊的,惨痛的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.

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Examples

  • It will seem crazy and oftentimes harrowing at first, but it slows down, and you find your head coach voice pretty quickly.

  • Vanessa Kirby’s performance was singled out for carrying “Pieces of a Woman,” a harrowing drama about a home birth.

  • It is one of the most harrowing accounts of the insurrection that has been made public to date — and a testament to just how devastating the event was to our democracy.

  • In this episode, Finnegan, whose surfing memoir Barbarian Days won the Pulitzer Prize, shares one of his most harrowing experiences in the water.

  • Schaff later told a harrowing story of being trapped in the Capitol as rioters broke in.

  • As the year draws to a close, these goals remain unfulfilled and the news from CAR continues to be harrowing.

  • She also tracks his deteriorating health through the harrowing videos of the captives regularly released by the Nusra Front.

  • His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.

  • On Thursday, Detective Superintendent McDonald described his account as “harrowing” and compelling.

  • Court painter to the Spanish Crown, he is perhaps best known for his harrowing Disasters of War series.

  • Harrowing makes finer the lumps near the surface, and mixes the fertilizer deeper than a rake can be used.

  • Mike and Joe would finish harrowing the potato field and begin planting.

  • Reaching my farm at eight, I found Joe harrowing in manure on the garden and Mike sowing peas.

  • There is nothing either harrowing or cabalistic in the place; and you can see nothing but two forms, a screen, and a crucifix.

  • At last the gangway was removed, and a kind of quietness fell upon the crowd, waiting for the next harrowing sensation.