heart-rending

英 [ˈhɑːt rendɪŋ]

美 [ˈhɑːrt rendɪŋ]

adj.  令人悲痛的

牛津词典

adj.

• 令人悲痛的
  causing feelings of great sadness
  1. a heart-rending story
     令人心痛的故事

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。

双语例句

• Almost all the people know the great Palisade that reminds the peking businessmen of the heart-rending past.
  几乎所有的人都知道大栅栏这个勾起老北京买卖人心酸回忆的地方。
• We learn that slashing stores and staff was heart-rending. We discover good communications are vital: Schultz is torn to pieces when his carefully worded memo is leaked.
  我们了解到，削减店面和员工让人伤怀，也了解到好的公关策略至关重要：那份措辞谨慎的备忘录外泄时，舒尔茨被撕成了碎片。
• To be received in your frozen manner is heart-rending.
  受到你那冷若冰霜的接待，我的心都裂开来了。
• Heart-rending screams could now and then be heard from the enemy prison in the distance.
  从远处敌人的牢房里不时传来惨不忍闻的尖叫声。
• Butterfly hugs him hysterically, then bids him a heart-rending farewell.
  蝴蝶发狂似地紧抱着他，悲痛欲绝地与他诀别。
• Make him wonder and be heart-rending.
  让他好奇，让他心慌。
• In towns and villages across a swathe of Sichuan, heart-rending scenes were played out as grief-stricken families searched for missing loved ones.
  在城镇和村庄，跨越大片四川，心rending场面发挥出作为悲痛受灾家庭寻找失踪的亲人。
• What a heart-rending thing it must have been for that poor man to leave all those things, and to hear his sister walking back and forth in the room overhead, packing their trunks!
  这个可怜的人听到他妹妹在楼上的卧室里来来回回地收拾行李，想到自己就要告别眼前的一切，这对他来说是多么伤心难过的事啊！
• Hers is a heart-rending story.
  她的遭遇听了令人心酸。
• He knew fantine's history in all its heart-rending details.
  他知道了芳汀身世中一切痛心的细情。