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If a sound is ear-splitting, it is so loud it feels as if it could tear your ears. Nobody’s ear actually splits; people reach for the word when a noise hurts — a scream, a fire alarm, a concert, a right beside you. It is a vivid, slightly informal adjective, more at home in stories and everyday talk than in a lab report, where you might just say “extremely loud”. You will meet it in front of a noun (an ear-splitting shriek) and after the verb be (the noise was ear-splitting). Though actually, speakers only stretch it over sound: a colour or a bright light is never ear-splitting.
震耳欲聾的
組成ear + splitting (from split, to break in two). The picture is of sound strong enough to split the ear.
同家族的字
- splitthe verb inside splitting
- sidesplittingthe same splitting picture, but for laughter so strong it feels as if it splits your sides
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。
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。