distressing
/dɪˈstɹɛsɪŋ/ 形容词 B2中文： 令人痛苦的
- Causing distress; upsetting; distressful. · The details of the ordeal can be distressing to some readers.
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“It is difficult, indeed--it is distressing.
Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances which he supposed a regular part of the business.
And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself, and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she had chosen.
It is really too distressing, I am sure you must feel it so.”
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