| 词汇 | disquieting |
| 释义 | disquieting adjective formaluk /dɪˈskwaɪə.tɪŋ/ us /dɪˈskwaɪə.t̬ɪŋ/ causing worry: 令人焦虑的，使人不安的，让人担心的 The disquieting situation between these two neighbouring countries looks as if it will continue.这两个相邻国家间令人担忧的局势看起来仍将持续下去。 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 disquieting | American Dictionarydisquieting adjective us/dɪsˈkwɑɪ·ɪ·t̬ɪŋ/ causing anxiety; worrying: The sheer size of their armed forces is a disquieting factor for neighboring countries. Examples of disquietingdisquieting If this is true, it would be another disquieting demonstration of the strength of nationalism and the idea of the nation-state. A number of other disquieting factors, both social economic and ideological, accumulated to weaken the drive for greater equality. The potential for disarticulation between democracy at the grassroots and for the nation remains disquieting. Despite these problems, the figures above show a disquieting situation that calls for united and coordinated efforts to fight the disease. A final, more tentative, theme in that same capitalist press was that the affair contained disquieting intimations of a challenge or threat to civilization itself. This is a disquieting thought when one considers how many judgements and assessments are based on verbal responses. Its doom-laden atmosphere does not preclude contemplative passages, but the implacability of its gradual build-up into a massive climax is memorably disquieting. During the early years of the transactional model, there was always a disquieting murmur questioning the possibility of operationalizing such a model. It is an elegant, and most disquieting, analysis. In many countries the rate of increase in the population is profoundly disquieting and to ban all pesticides is now out of the question. A disquieting development that has accompanied the fall in numbers of children hospitalized is the increase in placements in residential correctional facilities. This is no mere drunken frolic, but a movement to the disquieting ambiguities of 'serious comedy'. This ambiguity is relevant to the debate on one of the most disquieting dimensions of nationalism : the tension between its two souls, civic voluntarism and ethnic supremacism. As if these longstanding threats to the well-being of children were not sufficiently disquieting, more recent social changes have produced issues of equal or even greater concern. An examination of the footnotes in the search of further evidence also yields some disquieting results : 284 notes are not many for a work of this scope and size. 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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