heartrending

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile.
在珂賽特后面陪著她進(jìn)來的是一位白發(fā)老人，態(tài)度莊重，但含著微笑，可這是一種捉摸不定和沉痛的微笑。
And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, abandoned or forgotten, and a hole.
而最使人痛心的是，在那堆石塊后面，釘有鋅牌的樹腳下，有剛剛翻動過的泥土，留下的是一把被遺忘或被拋棄了的十字鎬，還有一個土穴。
And at last, with bowed head and quavering voice I would have to make a beginning--but too keenly conscious that to none else in the room but me was this performance sufficiently heartrending.
最后，還得開始吟唱，低垂著腦袋，顫抖的聲音，---但是我極其敏銳地意識到，在這屋子里，再沒有人比我對于這表演更為肝腸欲斷的了。

Janeway's tales of the brave and pious deaths of thirteen Christian boys and girls were nothing if not heartrending.
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You use heartrending to describe something that causes you to feel great sadness and pity.