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startling

/stahrt-ling, stahr-tl-ing/US // ˈstɑrt lɪŋ, ˈstɑr tl ɪŋ //UK // (ˈstɑːtlɪŋ) //

惊人的,愕然,愕然的,错愕

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder; astonishing.

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Examples

  • A startling amount of human happiness and wellbeing depends on our relationship with this one plant.

  • Today, Rent the Runway has more than 1,200 employees and does more than $100 million in revenue, but in 2009 the responses Jenn and her co-founder, Jennifer Fleiss, got from investors were less than encouraging, sometimes even startling.

  • It is startling to have someone look you in the eye and tell you things you know are lies.

  • That it occurred during a recession, a pandemic and record unemployment is a startling feat.

  • This summer has seen some startling examples of what these methods can accomplish.

  • So this startling move towards Internet censorship should come as no surprise.

  • Some of the concern over student debt is likely driven by the startling headline numbers.

  • Cirque du Soleil obviously sprang to startling success with a variety of shows since its 1987 founding.

  • For many governments, corporations, and individuals, these numbers are startling.

  • These numbers, although startling, are thought to “vastly underestimate” the reality.

  • It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.

  • The sudden way she turned upon him, rising from her chair and standing over him, was so startling that he got up too.

  • And then with a startling suddenness came the thought that, before now, men had been drowned in their baths!

  • Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.

  • This is a proposition which must, from its very nature, be startling to non-smokers, and surprising to many smokers.