喜樂美語
  1. 1a/dɪˈstresɪŋ/令人難過的；令人不安的

    Making you feel very upset or worried, usually because something sad, , or difficult has happened.

    distressing 是用來形容「事情」的：這件事讓人心裡很難受。它比 sad 強，而且不只是難過——裡面還有一點擔心、放不下的感覺，所以像「在陌生的城市裡身上沒有錢」這種又慌又難受的處境，英文就會說 a distressing situation。distressing 跟 distressed 很容易搞混：distressing 形容事情（The news was distressing.），distressed 形容人（She was distressed.）。可以想成同一個 distress（難受）有兩個方向：distressing 是「這件事把難受送出來」，distressed 是「人接到了那份難受」。

    示範例句 · Example

    Losing her puppy for a whole afternoon was a distressing experience for Mei.

    中文翻譯弄丟她的小狗一整個下午對美來說是一個令人難過的經歷。

    常見搭配

    • a distressing experience

      一段令人難過的經歷

      something that happened to you and made you feel very upset

      Getting lost at the night market was a distressing experience for the little boy.

    • very distressing

      非常令人難過

      extremely upsetting

      The story about the lost cat was very distressing for the children.

    • the most distressing thing / aspect

      最令人難過的部分

      the part of a situation that upsets you most

      The most distressing thing was that nobody told her what was happening.

    • find something distressing

      覺得某件事讓人難受

      to feel very upset by something

      Many viewers found the news report distressing.

    • it is distressing to see / hear

      看到／聽到某事讓人很難受

      used to say that seeing or hearing something upsets you

      It is distressing to see so many animals without a home.

    • distressing news

      令人難過的消息

      news that makes people feel very upset

      The family received some distressing news about their old house.

    • deeply distressing

      極為令人難過

      extremely upsetting

      The report described a deeply distressing situation in the town.

    意思相反

    comfortingreassuringsoothingcheering

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From distress, from Old French destrecier 'to constrain, afflict', ultimately from Latin distringō.

源自古法文 destrecier「逼入困境、折磨」。

Wiktionary

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。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。

同家族的字

意思相反

comfortingreassuringsoothingcheering

原始詞典資料2 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。

distressingadj/dɪˈstɹɛsɪŋ/

  • 1

    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：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。