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/ˈwɜːriɪŋ/ · /ˈwʌriɪŋ/
Something worrying makes you feel anxious. It makes you keep thinking that something bad has happened, or that something bad may happen later.
令人擔心的；令人憂心的
比較級 more worrying最高級 most worrying
核心畫面
You can think of it as the label you put on the thing that causes the worry, not on the person feeling it: a piece of news, a sound, a number on a report that keeps pulling your mind back to something bad that may have happened or may still be coming.
可以想成一個貼在「引起擔心的那個東西」身上的標籤，而不是貼在擔心的人身上：一則消息、一個聲音、報告上的一個數字，讓你…更多收起
可以想成一個貼在「引起擔心的那個東西」身上的標籤，而不是貼在擔心的人身上：一則消息、一個聲音、報告上的一個數字，讓你的念頭一直被拉回去，想著是不是有什麼壞事已經發生、或還會發生。原始詞典資料3 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。
worryingadj詞源 1/ˈwʌɹi.ɪŋ/
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Inducing worry.
- Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.
- Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."
worryingnoun詞源 2/ˈwʌɹi.ɪŋ/
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The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
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。