- 1令人痛心地、令人難受地
Distressingly tells you that something makes people feel very upset — sad, pained, or troubled — and to a degree that is hard to shake off. It is an adverb, so it usually sits with a verb or an adjective: “The room was distressingly quiet.” “It was distressingly easy to see who had been left out.” You meet it more in writing, news, and careful speech than in quick chat.
distressinglyDistressingly tells you that something makes people feel very upset告訴你某件事讓人感到非常難過——sad, pained, or troubled傷心、痛苦,或困擾——and to a degree that is hard to shake off而且是那種很難甩開的程度。it is an adverb這是副詞,so it usually sits with a verb or an adjective通常會搭配動詞或形容詞:"The room was distressingly quiet."『The room was distressingly quiet.』"It was distressingly easy to see who had been left out."『It was distressingly easy to see who had been left out.』you meet it more in writing, news, and careful speech你會在寫作、新聞和講究用字的談話裡遇到,than in quick chat勝過隨口聊天。
Though actually, it is not only for tragedy and tears. People also use it when a fact is uncomfortably true: “distressingly common” means “this happens a lot, and that should bother us.” The can be pity, worry, or a moral sting.
though actually不過其實,it is not only for tragedy and tears它不是只能用在悲劇和眼淚上。people also use it when a fact is uncomfortably true大家也會用在一個令人不安的事實上:"distressingly common"『distressingly common』 means意思是 "this happens a lot, and that should bother us"『這種事很常發生,而這應該讓人在意』。the ache can be pity, worry, or a moral sting這種難受的感覺可以是同情、擔憂,或道德上的刺痛。
It is stronger than “sadly,” and it points at the thing causing the pain more than at you performing sadness.
it is stronger than "sadly"它比『sadly』更強烈,and而且 it points at the thing causing the pain重點是指向造成痛苦的那件事,more than at you performing sadness而不是你表現出來的悲傷。
core核心畫面
組成distressing (causing deep upset) + -ly (in that way).
同家族的字
- distressthe noun or verb for deep upset or suffering
- distressingthe adjective: causing that upset
- distressedalready in that upset state
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
distressinglyadv
- 1
In a distressing manner; so as to cause distress.
- It shook the girl distressingly, but she made no sign; only she took one swift look at Andrew, and noted that he had suddenly changed from a boy into a man, with a brave, grave face.
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
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