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

• 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！
• It was, in truth, a heart-rending spectacle.
  这的确是令人痛心的场面。
• 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。
• The loss of such an iconic elephant is the most visible and heart-rending tip of this iceberg, this tragedy that is unfolding across the continent, added Frank Pope of Save The Elephants in Nairobi.
  在内罗毕拯救大象活动的弗兰克·波普（FrankPope）补充道：这一标志性大象的死亡，只是这冰山上最明显最令人心碎的一角。这样的悲剧正席卷全大陆。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hers is a heart-rending story.
  她的遭遇听了令人心酸。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。