heartrending

英 [ˈhɑːtˌrɛndɪŋ]

美

adj.  使人悲痛的; 令人心碎的

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柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 使人悲痛的;令人心碎的
  You useheart-rendingto describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity.
  1. ...heart-rending pictures of refugees...
     令人心碎的难民照片
  2. I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.
     我听到了最让人揪心的尖叫和呻吟。

英英释义

adj

• causing or marked by grief or anguish
  1. a grievous loss
  2. a grievous cry
  3. her sigh was heartbreaking
  4. the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter
  Synonym:grievousheartbreaking

双语例句

• Should I really bid adieu to this summer? Notwithstanding how heartrending the sorrow of parting is.
  真的该和夏说再见了么？无论如何地，离愁依依？
• I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.
  我听到了最让人揪心的尖叫和呻吟。
• What can I do to drive away these feelings of sadness? Time dulls the most exquisite emotions and softens the most heartrending grief.
  时间会缓和最激烈的情感，减轻最伤心的悲痛。
• A professor of emergency medicine at a major university sent me a really heartrending letter.
  一所主要大学的一位急救医学教授曾给我写过一封令人伤心的信。
• Please don't hurt me again, otherwise I'll undergo heartrending hurt.
  请你不要再来伤害我，我会难过，心象被撕碎一样。
• Over the black tide, from an invisible ship, came the sound of a gramophone playing some popular heartrending tune.
  越过黑乎乎的潮水，从一条望不见的船上传来留声机放出的令人心酸的流行小调。
• The recollection of the past was heartrending.
  回忆往事，令人无限伤感。
• You need only read the heartrending Africa chapters of Dreams from My Father to realise that Barack Obama gets Africa.
  翻开（奥巴马自传）《父亲的梦想》中关于非洲的那一章节，你就不难发现奥巴马的非洲情结。
• Isabel's sigh was heartrending.
  伊莎贝尔的叹息声令人心碎。
• And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, abandoned or forgotten, and a hole.
  而最使人痛心的是，在那堆石块后面，钉有锌牌的树脚下，有刚刚翻动过的泥土，留下的是一把被遗忘或被抛弃了的十字镐，还有一个土穴。