horrifying

英 [ˈhɒrɪfaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈhɔːrɪfaɪɪŋ]

adj.  令人极其震惊的(或厌恶的、恐惧的)
v.  惊吓; 使厌恶; 恐吓
horrify的现在分词

现在分词：horrifying　

Collins.1 / BNC.14355 / COCA.11437

牛津词典

adj.

• 令人极其震惊的（或厌恶的、恐惧的）
  making you feel extremely shocked, disgusted or frightened
  1. a horrifying sight/experience/story
     恐怖的景象 / 经历 / 故事
  2. It's horrifying to see such poverty.
     看到这种贫困状况令人震惊。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使感到震惊;使毛骨悚然;使产生反感
  If someoneis horrified, they feel shocked or disgusted, usually because of something that they have seen or heard.
  1. His family were horrified by the change.
     他的家人对这一变化感到震惊。
  2. ...a crime trend that will horrify all parents.
     会让所有父母感到毛骨悚然的犯罪趋势

双语例句

• Two family members had been taken from us in one horrifying act, one that would never have happened had we not kept Nina.
  我们在一场可怕的事件中失去了两个家庭成员，而如果我们没有收养妮娜，这件事就不可能发生。
• He followed this up with a few horrifying anecdotes from his own past. I was shocked to learn my co-worker was involved in a shakedown.
  他接下去讲了几件有关自己过去的令人震惊的轶事。得知我的合作人卷入了一起敲诈事件时，我惊呆了。
• Director Peter Berg depicts the incident in horrifying detail.
  导演彼得博格用残忍的细节重现了这一事件。
• And it is horrifying to see the cruelty happening while we are working so hard to change it.
  而且当我们在努力改变狗狗的境遇的同时还能发生这样残忍的事情是很可怕的。
• I tried one of her girlfriends that lives a few doors down and found out some horrifying news.
  我就去找她最好的一个朋友，她家和我们家只隔几户人家，她告诉了我一个可怕的消息。
• He is also a survivor of the horrifying battles in New Guinea during WWII.
  他也是二战中恐怖的新几内亚岛战役之幸存者。
• He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was.
  他极力指出战争是多么的恐怖。
• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.
  战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。
• Horrifying dreams at night could be one of the first signs of Parkinson's disease, according to scientists.
  近日，科学家研究证明了夜里经常噩梦的人患帕金森综合症的机率非常高。
• At the same time, even a horrifying explanation may be less frightening than inexplicable death.
  同时，即使死亡原因的惊人解释也比无来由的死较少令人恐惧。