sickening

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sick·en·ing /ˈsɪkənɪŋ, ˈsɪknɪŋ/ adjectiveadj

1 DISGUSTINGvery shocking, annoying, or upsetting 令人震惊的；令人厌恶的；令人难受的 SYN disgusting

Police described it as a sickening racial attack.

警方说这是一起令人震惊的种族袭击事件。

their sickening hypocrisy

他们那令人恶心的虚伪嘴脸

it is sickening that

It is sickening that human beings have done this to two innocent young women.

竟然有人会对两个无辜的年轻女性做出这种事来，真是让人震惊。

2 sickening thud/crash/sound etc SOUNDan unpleasant sound that makes you think someone has been injured or something has been broken 可怕的重击声/碰撞声/声音等

His head hit the floor with a sickening thud.

他的头撞在地板上，发出砰的一声，让人听了心惊肉跳。

There was a sickening sound of tearing metal.

传来一声可怕的金属断裂声。

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sickening thud/crash/sound etc• Her heart took up a sickening thud.• One pitched out, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.• Then, with a sickening thud in her solar plexus, she understood.• They heard screams, kicks, the sickening thud of a punch, and the ogre roaring Solper's name.• Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless.

3 very unpleasant and making you feel as if you want to vomit 令人作呕的

The sickening stench of rotting rubbish rose into the air.

垃圾的腐臭味泛入空气中，令人作呕。

4 British EnglishBrE spokenJEALOUS making you feel jealous 令人羡慕的；令人妒忌的

‘Helen’s just bought herself a huge house in the South of France.’ ‘God, how sickening!’

“海伦刚刚在法国南部买了一幢大房子。”“啊，真叫人羡慕！”

—sickeningly adverbadv

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sickening• And the sickening clamour of street noises beyond the cloister wall, the sickening odour of those who made them.• There was a sickening crash and the sound of broken glass as the two trains collided.• Many broiler chickens suffer a similar, sickening fate.• The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.• At sunrise, the sickening reality dawned that bullets, his bullets, had mown down human beings.• With a sickening reverberation the words stayed in her mind all the way back to her room.• the sickening smell of rotting meat• She'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture, and of prisoners who were never seen again.• His head hit the door with a sickening thud.

sick·en·ing adjectiveadj

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