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词汇 heartbreaking
释义 heartbreaking
adjective
uk /ˈhɑːtˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/ us /ˈhɑːrtˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/
causing extreme sadness: 令人心碎的,令人断肠的
a heartbreaking story令人心碎的故事
It is heartbreaking (for him) that he cannot see his children.对他来说,不能见到自己的孩子是非常伤心的事。
Synonyms
grievousformal
heartrending
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Saddening, shocking and upsetting
affecting
agonizingly
arrogance
baleful
be cold comfortidiom
disrespect
distressful
distressfully
distressing
distressingly
hurtful
hurtfully
impiously
impiousness
lacerating
teary
touching
touchingly
tragically
traumatic

Examples of heartbreaking


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However, while permanent immunity was certain, the procedure itself was ' costly, clumsy, heartbreaking and dangerous ', as one vet put it.
It is sickening, heartbreaking and real.
Bilingual education is an inspirational but heartbreaking book to read, especially for someone like me who spent so much passion in the '70s as an advocate for bilingual education.
Then it grew stronger through one ghastly winter after another, through repeated and heartbreaking postponements of the hope of liberty and indeed of life itself.
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No doubt, they have occurred in a minority of places, but those revelations have been heartbreaking and, invariably, repairing the damage has been almost impossible.
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It is heartbreaking for those who are trying to run our prison service to find them so inadequately equipped.
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It is pitiable, it is heartbreaking, that this sort of thing should go on month by month and year by year.
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The sight of more and more fanners having to give up is too heartbreaking to contemplate.
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If he does not have that, it is heartbreaking and demoralising.
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Although we are pulling together and doing what we can, it is a heartbreaking experience.
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It is a heartbreaking and seemingly impossible problem.
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To me it is always heartbreaking to see a boarded-out child.
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It is bad enough to be short of it, but it is heartbreaking to be flooded.
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They have been heartbreaking; in some senses, agonising.
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Is he aware that a farmer in my constituency recently had a heartbreaking experience when 15 ewes were brutally savaged by dogs?
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