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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. 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. It is stronger than “sadly,” and it points at the thing causing the pain more than at you performing sadness.
令人痛心地、令人難受地
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，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。
distressinglyadv
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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.
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。