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jaw-dropping

/jaw-drop-ing/US // ˈdʒɔˌdrɒp ɪŋ //

让人瞠目结舌,令人瞠目结舌,令人瞠目结舌的,让人瞠目结舌的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: The company has reported a jaw-dropping annual profit of $30 billion.

Examples

  • Aviation experts across the world experienced severe jaw dropping at this news.

  • It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.

  • The industry lore is downright jaw-dropping in the details of the cons known as “brick-in-box” returns.

  • Then we were dropping in on some cabaret in Denver, or perhaps it was a restaurant in Nevada.

  • Secondly, as GBCE reports, it puts the kids themselves at a higher risk of dropping out of school, or abandoning it all together.

  • First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.

  • Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!

  • Chief and most musical among these signs were the almost forgotten sounds of dropping water, and tinkling rills.

  • My coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.

  • He usually seizes his prey by the flank near the hind leg, or by the throat below the jaw.