真的很大聲
這一支就是核心畫面本身：聲音大到聽不見別的。
adjective · B2
So loud that the sound fills your ears and you can hardly hear anything else. In ordinary use it is an exaggeration for extremely loud, not a report that the sound really damaged someone's hearing.
震耳欲聾的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a sound so big that it takes your hearing for a moment. Everything else in your ears goes under it, so while it lasts you cannot hear your own voice or the person beside you. Both uses of deafening stand on that one picture of ears that have been filled right up.
可以想成一個畫面：聲音大到把耳朵整個塞滿。在那一瞬間，別的聲音全被壓在底下。你聽不見自己講話，也聽不見旁邊的人。de…更多收起
可以想成一個畫面：聲音大到把耳朵整個塞滿。在那一瞬間，別的聲音全被壓在底下。你聽不見自己講話，也聽不見旁邊的人。deafening 的兩種用法，都是從這個「耳朵被塞滿」的畫面長出來的。Two branches
連安靜也可以很大聲
同一個畫面被翻過來用：這次把耳朵塞滿的，是「什麼聲音都沒有」。
adjective · C1
A complete silence that everyone notices, either because the quiet has become uncomfortable or because someone was expected to speak and said nothing at all.
刺耳的沉默
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
deafeningadj/ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/
- 1
Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
- With a deafening crash lightning strikes the ledge directly above us.
- At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense, he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening, crashing waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid, eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors; and, above all, the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.
- 2
Very loud.
- At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
deafeningnoun/ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/
- 1
architecturepugging
- 2
The process by which something is deafened.
- Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。