| 单词 | crushing |
| 释义 | crushingWord family adjectivecrushablecrushedcrushingnouncrusheradverbcrushinglyverbcrush crush·ing /ˈkrʌʃɪŋ/ adjectiveadj [usually before noun] 1 UNPLEASANTvery hard to deal with, and making you lose hope and confidence 惨重的；使人难以承受的 The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat. 第八集团军遭到了惨败。 Failing his final exams was a crushing blow (=made him lose hope and confidence). 他未能通过期终考试对他是个沉重的打击。 the crushing burden of debt 沉重的债务负担 2. CRITICIZEa crushing remark, reply etc contains a very strong criticism 〔评论、回答等〕强烈批评的 —crushingly adverbadv ‘That’s fairly obvious, ’ she replied crushingly. “那是很明显的。”她不客气地回答。 Examples from the Corpus crushing• Formby suffered a crushing 10 wicket defeat at home to local rivals Southport.• And the really crushing blow came when the owner of his star performer, Joveworth, removed the horse from the yard.• Republicans in the state suffered a crushing defeat in last month's elections.• He had felt betrayed by the visit, after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it. crushing defeat• There were similar warnings in the 1980s after a crushing defeat for the separatists in the1980 referendum. |
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