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

• Some of the finest and most heart-rending passages are in the form of questions.
  某些最精采，最撕裂肝肠的段落，用的都是问话形式。
• It was, in truth, a heart-rending spectacle.
  这的确是令人痛心的场面。
• 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。
• 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。
• Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Saint-Merry.
  在那里，人们只听到一种仅有的声音枣一种和临终时的喘息一样使人听了为之心碎，和凶恶的诟骂一样使人听了为之心悸的声音枣圣美里的警钟声。
• 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！
• The cries of those imprisoned in the fallen buildings were heart-rending.
  被困于倒塌大楼里的人们的哭喊声令人心碎。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hers is a heart-rending story.
  她的遭遇听了令人心酸。