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Piercing has a few related uses. As a noun, a piercing is a small hole made in the body — usually the ear, nose, or — to wear jewelry, and it's also the name of the act of making that hole ("she got a piercing last week"). As an adjective, piercing describes something sharp and intense that seems to go right through you — a piercing scream is loud and sharp, piercing eyes seem to look right into you, and piercing cold feels like it cuts straight through your clothes.
穿孔、穿環（名詞）；（形容詞）刺耳的、銳利的、刺骨的
組成From the verb "pierce," meaning to make a hole through something sharp and fast.
同家族的字
- piercethe verb — to pierce something is to push through it, which is where both meanings of piercing come from
原始詞典資料7 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。
piercingnoun/ˈpɪɹsɪŋ/
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A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it.
- ear piercing
- 2
An item of jewellery designed to be fitted through a piercing (noun sense 2).
piercingadj/ˈpɪɹsɪŋ/
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Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating.
- piercing eyes
- 2
Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter.
- 3
Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill.
- The piercing noise of the children could be heard two blocks from the elementary school.
- In the meantime the saw was stopped and two of the men began filing and sharpening the blades, which produced such a piercing sound that it went through bone and marrow.
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。