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If something is harrowing, it is so , cruel, or sad that it leaves you shaken and upset — a harrowing film, a harrowing story, a harrowing wait for news. It is a strong word. You would not use it for something only a little scary.
If something is harrowing如果某件事是harrowing it is so frightening, cruel, or sad that it leaves you shaken and upset意思是它讓人非常害怕、殘忍，或悲傷，讓你感到震驚難過 a harrowing film, a harrowing story, a harrowing wait for news像是a harrowing film（令人震驚的電影）、a harrowing story（令人痛心的故事）、a harrowing wait for news（等消息等得心如刀割） It is a strong word這是一個很強烈的詞 You would not use it for something only a little scary你不會用它來形容只是有點嚇人的事情
The picture underneath is the farm harrow tearing up the ground: the feeling is of being torn up inside.
The picture underneath這個詞背後的畫面 is the farm harrow tearing up the ground是農具harrow（耙）把地耙開 the feeling is of being torn up inside那種感覺就像是內心被撕開一樣
Though actually, in older church art and literature you may also meet “the Harrowing of Hell,” a story of Christ going into Hell after the crucifixion. That is the same family of meaning — to raid, to tear through — not a different word. The everyday adjective is the shocking, upsetting one.
Though actually不過其實 in older church art and literature you may also meet “the Harrowing of Hell,”在比較古老的教會藝術和文學裡，你也可能會看到「the Harrowing of Hell」（哈羅欽地獄） a story of Christ going into Hell after the crucifixion講的是基督在被釘十字架之後下到地獄的故事 That is the same family of meaning這跟前面是同一個字源家族的意思 to raid, to tear through突襲、撕裂穿過 not a different word不是另一個字 The everyday adjective日常用的那個形容詞 is the shocking, upsetting one指的是令人震驚、難過的那個意思
組成harrow + -ing. Built from the verb harrow in the “distress, tear at” sense.
同家族的字
- harrowharrowing is harrow plus -ing; the upset feeling is like being torn up
原始詞典資料6 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。
harrowingadj/ˈhæɹəʊ.ɪŋ/
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formalCausing pain or distress; harrying.
- Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
harrowingnoun/ˈhæɹəʊ.ɪŋ/
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The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- The field received two harrowings.
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Suffering, torment.
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Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
- Scientists who complain about the helplessness of politicians might consider the desolation in England which followed the harrowing of the north by William the Conqueror or the state of the Palatinate long after the end of the Thirty Years War[.]
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ChristianityRavaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
- As in other myths, like Christ's harrowing of hell, the initiate descends into the netherworld for the magical three days.
- In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven.
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。