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

• 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。
• Make him wonder and be heart-rending.
  让他好奇，让他心慌。
• I have cried, because of I see amatory end, being standing has been not you and me, been so heart-rending unexpectedly at the back of truth.
  我哭了，因为我看到爱情的尽头，站着的不是你和我，真相的背后，竟是如此令人心碎。
• Innumerable challenges had given AOL a heart-rending rollercoaster ride all along the way.
  难以计数的挑战使AOL犹如一直处在高速过山车中那般令人胆战心惊。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。