| 词汇 | eye-watering |
| 释义 | eye-watering adjective (alsoeyewatering)uk /ˈaɪˌwɔː.tə.rɪŋ/ us /ˈaɪˌwɑː.t̬ɚ.ɪŋ/ eye-wateringadjective (SURPRISING)extremely surprising, because of being great in amount: （在数目方面）令人极度惊讶的 The oil giants' profits are eye-watering.这些石油巨头的利润令人瞠目结舌。 Despite taking an eyewatering pay cut, he has no regrets about his career change.尽管薪水少得可怜，但他对自己的职业转变并不后悔。 The firm owes an eye-watering £3.5bn. These guys work eye-watering hours. The cost to the taxpayer of these proceedings is eye-watering. Surprising and shocking against all expectationsphrase amaze amazing amazingly astonish dumbfounding dumbfoundingly dynamite earth-shaking earth-shattering pull pull something out of the bag/hatidiom raise (a few) eyebrowsidiom reality check sensationalist turn-up for the book(s)idiom unbelievable walk walk in on someone world-shattering eye-wateringadjective (CAUSING TEARS)causing tears to form in your eyes: 引起人流泪的 The smoke was eye-watering and acrid.烟味令人流泪，刺鼻难闻。 Wasabi is the eyewatering, hot Japanese horseradish that is usually served on sushi.日式芥末是一种刺激人流泪、很辣的日本辣根，通常用在寿司上。 He received an eye-watering kick in the groin. An initial sweet, fruity flavor is quickly followed by an intense and eyewatering heat that will not subside for several minutes. Each opened shelf in the collection wafted out the eye-watering stench of an old-fashioned preventive measure against insect invasion. Weeping and crying bawl blubber boohoo break down bucket burst out laughing/cryingidiom close to tears grizzle have a sookidiom lachrymose lachrymosely mewl mewling tear something up tear-stained tear-streaked teardrop tearful tearfully waterworks eye-watering | Business Englisheye-watering adjective UKukus extremely high in amount: The cost of getting your car repaired while abroad can be eye-watering. The bank is worth an eye-watering €1.1 billion. Examples of eye-wateringeye-watering That statement was met by incredulity and anger on the part of huge numbers of frustrated claimants for its sheer arrogance and eye-watering denial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a sound strong enough to cause eye-watering, mind-numbing pain. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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