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形容词 C2

中文: 令人苦恼的、让人心烦的

  1. Causing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful. · He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting.· The bodies lying at the scene of the crash were an upsetting sight.
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“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
《Alice's Adventures in Wonderland》,第90页 · B2
Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
《The Jungle Book》,第76页 · B2
We then went upstairs together, and having entered the room and seen the dressing-gown hanging up behind the door, I contrived, by upsetting a table, to engage their attention for the moment, and slipped back to examine the pockets.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第53页 · B2

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