Distressing

(adj.) causing distress or worry or anxiety; 'distressing (or disturbing) news'; 'lived in heroic if something distressful isolation'; 'a disturbing amount of crime'; 'a revelation that was most perturbing'; 'a new and troubling thought'; 'in a particularly worrisome predicament'; 'a worrying situation'; 'a worrying time' .

录入:莫拉

• Some intense associations of a most distressing nature were vividly recalled, I think. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I saw the word, and am curious to know how it could be so very entertaining to the one, and so very distressing to the other. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• We said no more to each other about the distressing interview of the morning. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• From the point of view of the political hack, Judge Lindsey made a most distressing use of the red herring. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This is a distressing predicament for these young people,' thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Margaret could not bear the sight of the suspense, which was even more distressing to her father than to herself. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I appeal to you not to take advantage of your position in this house to make my position in it distressing and disagreeable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I have kept many things from your knowledge, Marian, for fear of distressing you, and making you unhappy at the outset of our new lives. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My rough beard wee distressing me beyond measure. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It's a distressing case--very; I never knew one more so; but really, my dear sir, really we have no power to control this lady's actions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She seemed to like distressing us both by parting us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But the commentary upon it now indelibly written in his handsome face made it far more distressing than it used to be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Margaret began to wonder whether all offers were as unexpected beforehand,--as distressing at the time of their occurrence, as the two she had had. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It's distressing to reflect upon, said St. Clare, dryly. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• There were those among the unregenerated who attributed the unceasing head-winds to our distressing choir-music. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She had read Miss Crawford's note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• To own to the partial truth of what he had heard would be distressing as long as the humiliating position resulting from the event was unimproved. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I've been thinking of it, these two or three nights past; I have such distressing pains, and such strange feelings. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It glanced through her mind that Mr. Casaubon had left the property away from her--which would not be so very distressing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I seem to have been distressing you for nothing. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It is really too distressing. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It is difficult indeed--it is distressing. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The impression I have derived from our correspondence does not, thank God, lead me to any such distressing conclusion as that. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• For many men before Gautama in that land of uneventful sunshine had found life distressing and mysterious. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is so very painful and distressing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• That this way was, of all others, the most distressing to himself, was awkward enough; but the reddleman's love was generous. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I am afraid, Miss Halcombe, something very distressing has happened. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am no more answerable for this distressing calamity, my lady, than you are, he said. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Sleep was coy and hard to be won; dreams were distressing and baleful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Why, it was very distressing, you know, to see poor Pa so low and hear him say such terrible things, and I couldn't help crying myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

整理:普雷斯利