heartrending
常見例句
- With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile.
在珂賽特后面陪著她進來的是一位白發(fā)老人，態(tài)度莊重，但含著微笑，可這是一種捉摸不定和沉痛的微笑。 - And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, abandoned or forgotten, and a hole.
而最使人痛心的是，在那堆石塊后面，釘有鋅牌的樹腳下，有剛剛翻動過的泥土，留下的是一把被遺忘或被拋棄了的十字鎬，還有一個土穴。 - And at last, with bowed head and quavering voice I would have to make a beginning--but too keenly conscious that to none else in the room but me was this performance sufficiently heartrending.
最后，還得開始吟唱，低垂著腦袋，顫抖的聲音，---但是我極其敏銳地意識到，在這屋子里，再沒有人比我對于這表演更為肝腸欲斷的了。 - Janeway's tales of the brave and pious deaths of thirteen Christian boys and girls were nothing if not heartrending.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe' - And in recent NFL history, few seasons have been as heartrending as the one experienced by the 2011 Patriots.
FORBES: The Sadness (And Salvation) Of New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft - Martinis, consumed by the bucketful, launch anxious bouts of adultery and heartrending quarrels.
NEWYORKER: Revolutionary Road 返回 heartrending