- 1aB2
/dɪˈstresɪŋ/
Making you feel very upset or worried, usually because something sad, , or difficult has happened.
令人難過的；令人不安的
核心畫面
One way to hold it: something happens — an accident, bad news, a scene you did not want to see — and it presses down on the person watching, leaving them shaken and unable to put it aside. *Distressing* points at the thing doing the pressing, not at the person feeling it.
有件事發生了——一場意外、一個壞消息、一個你本來不想看到的畫面——它壓在看到的人身上，讓那個人心裡發沉、一時放不下。…更多收起
有件事發生了——一場意外、一個壞消息、一個你本來不想看到的畫面——它壓在看到的人身上，讓那個人心裡發沉、一時放不下。要抓住的重點是方向：distressing 指的是「造成這種壓力的那個東西」，不是承受的人。人是 distressed，事情是 distressing。原始詞典資料2 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。
distressingadj/dɪˈstɹɛsɪŋ/
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Causing distress; upsetting; distressful.
- The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.
- One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
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。