词汇 | disconcert |
释义 | disconcert verb[ I or T ] uk /ˌdɪs.kənˈsɜːt/ us /ˌdɪs.kənˈsɝːt/ to make someone feel suddenly uncertain and worried: (使)焦虑,(使)不安 The whole experience had disconcerted him.整个这次经历让他感到焦虑不安。 Synonym discomfitformal Causing anxiety and worry alarming alarmingly bite catch up with someone come back to bite someoneidiom disturb dread frighten someone/something away/off get/go beyond a jokeidiom give someone the jimjamsidiom give someone the jittersidiom gnaw oppressive rattle roost stressfully suspenseful suspensefully suspensive swatting Related wordsdisconcerting disconcertingly disconcert | American Dictionarydisconcert verb[ T ] us/ˌdɪs·kənˈsɜrt/ to make someone feel suddenly uncertain or worried: He was disconcerted by all the attention he was getting. disconcertingadjectiveus/ˌdɪs·kənˈsɜr·t̬ɪŋ/ So this deliberate lack of interest in noticing us was most disconcerting. Examples of disconcertdisconcert As though this is insufficiently disconcerting, a few pages later we find ourselves in 1939, hearing about male prejudices against educated women. This context, disconcerting for many recent scholars, actually explains his ecumenical imperial perspective. The wild expression joined with the staid pose is disconcerting. This is what we would hope: it would be disconcerting if bisimilarity equated two programs that were contextually distinct. Inexplicably, the authors get the title wrong (they add an extra s), but their interpretation is disconcerting in other ways as well. Being led down the hallways of one's previous life over several hundred pages is a slightly disconcerting experience. The disagreement about the foundations of the "most certain" science are both surprising and, to put it mildly, disconcerting. This can be quite disconcerting for an experienced player. All this results in a book that is brilliant, intimidating, original, disconnected, often hilarious, intentionally disconcerting, and sometimes awkwardly personal. It does appear from the depiction of the data that faster pulsars have been discovered more recently, but the trend is not disconcerting. This is particularly disconcerting given that the dustjacket claims that the work ' ' defies the standard narratives. The ordering of the chapters in this section might be a bit disconcerting for any reader approaching this discipline for the first time. One statement which the non-specialist finds disconcerting is that clear sparkling water is often suggestive of contamination by organic material. What this gains in concentration of ideas, it loses in overall shape: one has to make disconcerting chronological leaps back and forth between sections. This is disconcerting given the ageing of the population. 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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