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！
• 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。
• 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。
• This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it made an impression on him.
  那梦，和大多数的梦一样，只是和一些惨痛莫名的情况有关连，但是他仍然受了感动。
• 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。
• Hers is a heart-rending story.
  她的遭遇听了令人心酸。
• Make him wonder and be heart-rending.
  让他好奇，让他心慌。
• 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。
• 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。