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startlingly

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

惊人地,错愕地,惊人的是,愕然地

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

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Examples

  • That’s a startling contrast to the consensus on Taylor Swift a few years ago, when she was widely considered to be a try-hard whose hard work was off-putting.

  • What’s startling, then, is that Jones has exceeded Tagovailoa’s production on those throws.

  • These are startling numbers and they demand an urgent response.

  • The intensity of the hostility over the past week was nonetheless startling.

  • A more recent FiveThirtyEight analysis pegged the bias at a startling 6 to 7 points.

  • He is a startlingly brilliant bassist, as accomplished in classical music as in jazz.

  • Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live.

  • And, while there are many startlingly violent scenes, they are juxtaposed with beauteous ones.

  • Barack Obama has completely distracted attention from the startlingly right-wing government  that Bibi installed on Monday.

  • The second half of the film, in particular, is startlingly effective.

  • Included was a twenty-page aside on the offending Bishop, revealing a startlingly thorough knowledge of his writings.

  • The thoughts which came to him were startlingly primitive, direct and sometimes meaningless to him.

  • Startlingly Mrs. Briggs laughed, shrilly, unpleasantly, as a woman laughs in great fear.

  • The glove is a great page; it is startlingly original, and as true as death and judgment.

  • They looked startlingly large and prominent; and at times seemed literally to blaze with an inward fire.