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

• 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。
• I'm loving you silently, but you do not know, I'm so heartrending and painful.
  我在默默地爱你，可是你不知道，我很伤很痛。
• 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。
• The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough, has promulgated the most elated and the most heartrending thing& love in the world through Meggie and Ralph s love story.
  麦卡洛的《荆棘鸟》通过梅吉和拉尔夫的情爱故事向世人揭示了世界上最令人心醉和最令人心碎的东西&爱情。
• 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。
• I heard the most heartrending screams and moans.
  我听到了最让人揪心的尖叫和呻吟。
• With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile.
  在珂赛特后面陪着她进来的是一位白发老人，态度庄重，但含着微笑，可这是一种捉摸不定和沉痛的微笑。
• It is really heartrending to see his own child sentenced.
  看到自己的孩子被判刑真叫人伤心。
• The recollection of the past was heartrending.
  回忆往事，令人无限伤感。
• 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。